摘要:
A developer container has a main part accommodating a developer therein and is detachably attached to a main part of an image forming apparatus. The developer container comprises an outlet provided at a side of the developer container to discharge the developer from the developer container. An input unit is provided adjacent to the outlet and has a small-diameter portion an inside diameter of which is smaller than a diameter of the container main part wherein, when the developer container is attached to the image forming apparatus, the input unit is engaged with a drive motor of the image forming apparatus to receive a rotating force of the drive motor. A developer guiding unit causes the developer inside the developer container to be moved to the outlet beyond the small-diameter portion of the input unit by rotation of the developer container.
摘要:
In an electrophotographic color image forming apparatus using a tandem-drum development, an indirect image-transfer method, and a vertical sheet supply path, an intermediate image-transfer member is angled relative to a horizontal line such that a rear side of the intermediate image-transfer member away from a recording sheet is lifted and a front side of the intermediate image-transfer member closer to the recording sheet is lowered, and image creating mechanisms of the tandem-drum development are aligned in parallel and are arranged along and parallel to a moving image transfer bed formed by the intermediate image-transfer.member such that one of the image creating mechanisms firstly forming an image faces the rear side and another one of the image creating mechanisms lastly forming an image faces the front side of the moving image transfer bed.
摘要:
An electrophotographic color image forming apparatus (100) using both a tandem-drum development, an indirect image-transfer method and a vertical sheet supply path, wherein an intermediate image-transfer member (7) is arranged relative to a horizontal line such that a rear side of the intermediate image-transfer member away from a recording sheet is lifted and a front side thereof closer to the recording sheet is lowered, image creating mechanisms (8Y,8C,8M,8Bk) are aligned in parallel and arranged along and parallel to a moving image transfer bed formed by the intermediate image-transfer member (7) such that one of the image creating mechanisms (8Y) firstly forming an image faces the rear side and another image creating mechanism (8Bk) lastly forming an image faces the front side of the moving image transfer bed, and toner cartridges (36a,36b,36c,36d) are accessible along and parallel to the intermediate transfer member (7) such that toner conveying passages between the toner cartridges and image creating mechanisms are substantially of similar length and angle.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that carries a toner image; a transfer member that forms a transfer nip between the transfer member and the image carrier; and a power supply capable of outputting a superimposed transfer bias in which an alternating current component is superimposed onto a direct current component. The toner image on the image carrier is transferred onto a recording medium in the transfer nip by the superimposed transfer bias or a direct current bias consisting of the direct current component output by the power supply. The apparatus also includes a controller that controls the power supply so that an output target value of the direct current component when the direct current component rises up is larger than an output target value of the direct current component when the toner image is transferred onto the recording medium.