An image forming apparatus capable of changing over between black printing
and color printing with an intermediate transfer belt being brought into
contact with and separated from photoconductors by means of a black
transfer member and a three-color-integrated color transfer member. The
image forming apparatus has a registration mark former for forming
registration marks on the intermediate transfer belt, a registration
sensor for reading the registration marks, and a controller for
controlling the registration mark former based on the registration marks
read by the registration sensor, so as to adjust registration. The
controller has an adjustment mode to adjust registration between black
and color.