An image forming apparatus which can prevent the electric discharge when the
trailing
edge of a recording material passes a transferring position, and yet can stabilize
the surface potential of a photosensitive drum. A controller changes a transfer
bias voltage Vt during the supply of paper to 0 V before the trailing edge of recording
paper arrives at a transferring nip part, changes it to a transfer bias voltage
V0 during the non-supply of paper after the trailing edge of the recording
paper has passed the transferring nip part, and changes a charging bias voltage
to a charging bias voltage smaller than a normal charging bias voltage when an
area on the photosensitive drum to which 0 V has been applied passes a charging
nip portion. The transfer bias voltage V0 during the non-supply of paper
is smaller than the transfer bias voltage Vt during the supply of paper.