An image forming apparatus includes an image forming target looped around plural rotators including a driving roller, having at least one straight portion that is shaped straight when viewed in an axial direction of the driving roller, and transported by the driving roller and the rotators, and three or more image formers arranged along the straight portion and configured to form images on the image forming target. An adjacency distance along the straight portion between the image formers adjacent to each other on the straight portion is an integral multiple of an outer peripheral length of the driving roller. The adjacency distance at a downstream end is shorter than the adjacency distance at an upstream end, and one of the adjacency distances is equal to or shorter than the adjacency distance that is relatively on an upstream side.

An image forming apparatus includes: a first image forming section that uses a toner containing flat pigment particles; a second image forming section that uses a toner not containing the flat pigment particles; and a fixing section that fixes an image formed on a recording medium to the recording medium using heat. The quantity of heat that the fixing section applies to the image is increased in the case where the image formed on the recording medium using the toner containing the flat pigment particles is to be fixed compared to a case where the image formed on the recording medium using the toner not containing the flat pigment particles is to be fixed.

An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor drum, an intermediate transfer belt that moves in contact with the photoconductor drum, and a primary transfer roller which is a metal roller. A first contact region, being a region on the photoconductor drum in contact with the intermediate transfer belt, and a second contact region, being a region on the primary transfer roller in contact with the intermediate transfer belt, are spaced from each other, and a summit of the primary transfer roller, protruding farthest toward the photoconductor drum, in a direction in which the photoconductor drum and the primary transfer roller are aligned across the intermediate transfer belt, is set to intrude on the photoconductor drum, via the intermediate transfer belt.