Skew prevention structure for electrophotographic printer

Claim 1

An electrophotographic printer comprising a photoconductive drum, and a transfer charger, a feed path of a recording medium being defined between said photoconductive drum and said transfer charger, a latent image being formed on the circumferential surface of said photoconductive drum by exposing said surface to light carrying image data, a toner image being formed by applying toner to said latent image, said recording medium being charged by said transfer charger so that said toner image is transferred from said photoconductive drum to said recording medium, said printer further comprising: first shifting means arranged at the upstream side of said feed path with respect to said transfer charger for shifting said recording medium to said photoconductive drum by a predetermined amount; and second shifting means arranged at the downstream side of said feed path with respect to said transfer charger for shifting said recording medium to said photoconductive drum by another predetermined amount, wherein said first shifting means and said second shifting means press said recording medium along a predetermined width of said photoconductive drum, such that a straight line formed by interconnecting said first and second shifting means intersects said circumferential surface of said photoconductive drum at more than one point, said second shifting means being remote from said photoconductive drum so as not to apply pressure directly to said photoconductive drum.