IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH RECOVERY DEVICE FOR RECOVERING COLOR DEVELOPERS

摘要

An image forming apparatus comprises developing units of a plurality of colors, at a developing position, to develop the electrostatic latent images, a rotation member for retaining the developing units of the plurality of colors along a rotating direction, and rotating to sequentially move the developing units to the developing position, an intermediate transfer member for sequentially superposing and transferring the developer images formed on the image carrier, and transferring the superposed and transferred developer images together to an image-transferred member, and a plurality of recovery devices retained on the rotation member, between the developing units of the plurality of colors, for recovering developers after the transfer of the developer images to the intermediate transfer member, and making the recovered developers return to the developers of the same colors as the colors of the developers.