摘要:
A technology capable of suppressing the generation of transfer scattering of a toner image on an intermediate transfer body and contributing to an improvement in image quality in an image forming apparatus employing an intermediate transfer system is provided. An image forming apparatus is configured to include an intermediate transfer body to which a toner imager is transferred from an image carrier, the intermediate transfer body having an elastic surface layer having a center point average roughness of 0.1 times or more of a volume average particle size of a used toner and a ten-point average roughness of not more than the volume average particle size of the used toner; and a development section which develops an electrostatic latent image on the image carrier by using a toner having a shape factor SF-1 in the range of from 100 to 130 and a shape factor SF-2 in the range of from 100 to 140.
摘要:
It is an object of the invention to provide an image forming apparatus in which the quality of output images is improved by defining the relation between a measured value of an adhesion of toner and a physical property value of an intermediate belt and related technologies thereof.In an image forming apparatus which transfers a toner image formed on a photoconductive member primarily onto the intermediate transfer belt and then transfers the same secondarily onto an image bearing medium, a relation; 40
摘要:
The transfer member in an image forming apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention is a transfer member in an image forming apparatus for transferring a toner image obtained by developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier onto a material to be transferred, wherein the transfer member includes a base material having thereon a surface layer for temporarily holding on the surface thereof the toner image to be transferred onto the material to be transferred and comprising a resin containing a diamond fine particle in the range of from about 0.01% to about 40%.
摘要:
An apparatus and method for cleaning a plurality of drums in an image forming apparatus includes applying a first bias to each of a plurality of disturbing members, each disturbing member associated with a corresponding drum of a plurality of drums. While performing an image forming operation wherein at least one of the plurality of drums is not use, the bias is changed of a disturbing member corresponding to at least one of the plurality of drums not used in performing the image forming operation from the first bias to a second bias different from the first bias.
摘要:
In an image forming apparatus adopting a cleanerless process, there is provided a technique of preventing deterioration of picture quality due to photoreceptor filming or color mixture. An image forming apparatus of a cleanerless process in which a toner image is formed on an image bearing body by a developing unit, and a toner remaining on the image bearing body is collected by the developing unit, includes an intermediate transfer belt made of laminated layers of plural conductive materials different from each other and having a belt surface onto which the toner image is transferred from the image bearing body at a specified transfer position, and a transfer unit configured to press the intermediate transfer belt to the image bearing body at the specified transfer position and to apply a specified bias voltage to the intermediate transfer belt, wherein with respect to the plural conductive materials of the intermediate transfer belt, a layer closer to a side of either one of the toner transferred from the image bearing body and the transfer unit, where negative polarity is set, has a higher volume resistance value.
摘要:
There is provided a technique in which in a four-rotation intermediate transfer system image forming apparatus, even in a state where a large amount of transfer residual toner is generated, the occurrence of color mixture of toners can be effectively suppressed. The image forming apparatus of a cleanerless process includes a development unit to movably hold plural developing devices to form images with toners of colors different from each other and to move a desired developing device to a specified development position opposite to the image bearing body by the movement, a collection unit capable of changing a mode between a collection mode of collecting the toner remaining on the image bearing body at a specified collection position of the image bearing body and a non-collection mode of not performing toner collection from the image bearing body, and a control unit to set, when a first developing device is changed to a second developing device in the development unit, the collection unit into the collection mode only in a specified period within a period from a second timing earlier than a first timing when the first developing device is changed to the second developing device by a time required for an image bearing surface of the image bearing body to move from the specified collection position to the specified development position to a third timing when a rear end of an area where the toner image is formed by the first developing device before the second developing device on the image bearing body reaches the specified collection position.
摘要:
A technology for controlling the generation of damages of a photoconductive surface caused due to the attachment of a carrier to a photoconductor in an image forming apparatus using a two-component developing agent is provided. An image forming apparatus is configured to include an intermediate transfer body having prescribed elasticity on a transfer surface onto which a toner image is transferred; plural image carriers which transfer a toner image onto the transfer surface and which are disposed along a movement direction of the transfer surface of the intermediate transfer body; plural development sections which form toner images having a different color from each other with respect to the plural image carriers by using a two-component developing agent made of a toner and a carrier; and developing agent replenishment sections which replenish a toner and a carrier in the development sections.
摘要:
There is provided a technique in which when an image forming processing with toners of plural colors is performed, a residual toner on a transfer-receiving member to which toner images are transferred by plural image forming units is not discarded, but is reused as a black toner, and a deterioration in picture quality due to a change in color tone of the black toner is prevented. An image forming apparatus is for performing an image forming processing by plural image forming units to form toner images of colors different from each other on a transfer-receiving member moved in a specified direction, and includes a toner collecting unit to collect toners remaining on the transfer-receiving member, a ratio judgment unit to judge a mixing ratio of toners of plural colors included in the toners collected by the toner collecting unit, and a toner replenishing unit to replenish an insufficient color toner to the toners collected by the toner collecting unit based on the mixing ratio judged by the ratio judgment unit so that the mixing ratio becomes a specified ratio.
摘要:
A color image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer member, a first forming portion having a first transfer unit, a second forming portion provided downstream from the first forming portion, a third forming portion provided downstream from the second forming portion, a fourth forming portion provided downstream from the third forming portion, and a control portion. The control portion controls a bias of at least one of the corresponding developing unit and the corresponding transfer unit, when transfer of the toner image from the intermediate transfer member to the recording medium is completed, so that a toner-image residue toner material resting on the intermediate transfer member is returned to the corresponding developing unit through the image bearing member of at least one of the first to fourth forming portions.
摘要:
An apparatus and method for cleaning a plurality of drums in an image forming apparatus includes applying a first bias to each of a plurality of disturbing members, each disturbing member associated with a corresponding drum of a plurality of drums. While performing an image forming operation wherein at least one of the plurality of drums is not use, the bias is changed of a disturbing member corresponding to at least one of the plurality of drums not used in performing the image forming operation from the first bias to a second bias different from the first bias.