摘要:
A developer regulating member abutting against a developer carrying member carrying a mono-component developer to regulate the layer thickness of the developer on the developer carrying member has a supported portion supported by a support member, and an abutting portion abutting against the developer carrying member, the surface roughness parameters of this abutting portion satisfying the following expressions (1) to (5): 0.30 ≤ Sm ≤ 0.170 (1) Rpk ≤ 2.0 (2) Rp ≤ 5.0 (3) 0.10 ≤ Rvk x (100 - Mr2)/100 ≤ 1.30 (4) Rpk
摘要:
An image forming apparatus has a first image formation mode A for forming an image (502) on an image bearing member by using developer under a first predetermined image forming condition and a second image formation mode B for forming an image (507) on an image bearing member by using developer under a second image forming condition which is different from the first predetermined image forming condition regarding an exposure time on the basis of sensitivity variations and is set so that an amount of consumption of developer with respect to an identical image in the second image formation mode is smaller than that in the first image formation mode, the apparatus includes storing means (50, 103) for storing information for setting the second image forming condition corresponding to a plurality of levels of an amount of usage of the image bearing member such as copy sheets fed, and control means (105) for changing the second image forming condition in the second image formation mode depending on an amount of usage of the image bearing member and information stored in the storing means.
摘要:
A developer regulating member abutting against a developer carrying member carrying a mono-component developer to regulate the layer thickness of the developer on the developer carrying member has a supported portion supported by a support member, and an abutting portion abutting against the developer carrying member, the surface roughness parameters of this abutting portion satisfying the following expressions (1) to (5): 0.30 = Sm = 0.170 (1) Rpk = 2.0 (2) Rp = 5.0 (3) 0.10 = Rvk x (100 - Mr2)/100 = 1.30 (4) Rpk
摘要:
An image forming apparatus has a first image formation mode A for forming an image (502) on an image bearing member by using developer under a first predetermined image forming condition and a second image formation mode B for forming an image (507) on an image bearing member by using developer under a second image forming condition which is different from the first predetermined image forming condition regarding, eg. exposure energy and bias voltages for charging and developing, and is set so that an amount of consumption of developer with respect to an identical image in the second image formation mode is smaller than that in the first image formation mode, the apparatus includes storing means (50,103) for storing information on an amount of usage of the image bearing member i.e. wear, and control means (105) for changing the second image forming condition in the second image formation mode depending on the information stored in the storing means.