Patent ID: 7386256
Filing Date: 2008-06-10
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: a latent electrostatic image carrier; a forming unit configured to form a latent electrostatic image on the latent electrostatic image carrier (1, 24, 101, 15); a developing unit configured to develop, with a toner, the latent electrostatic image, to thereby form a visible image; a transferring unit configured to transfer the visible image to a recording medium; and a fixing unit configured to fix the image transferred to the recording medium, wherein the latent electrostatic image carrier comprises: wherein the surface protective layer comprises a mesh structured resin made by cross-linking the following: wherein the toner comprises an inorganic fine particle which defines an effective inorganic fine particle amount in a range of 0.8% by mass to 3.0% by mass calculated from the following equation (1): wherein SF-2 denotes a shape factor of the toner.