Patent ID: 6448989
Filing Date: 2002-09-10
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus in which an electrostatic latent image is formed on an electrophotographic photosensitive member with digital light, and electrostatically developed with a developer to form a developed image, and the developed image is transferred onto a transfer material to form an image on the transfer material and a cleaning member is to eliminate residual toner on the photosensitive member after a transferring operation by scraping the photosensitive member, the apparatus comprising:exposure means for normally performing weak exposure, such that reflective density is increased, only in a specified region on the photosensitive member in a horizontal scanning direction of the digital light, regardless of exposure of the latent image by an exposure device for forming an image; and control means for controlling the specified region, wherein the specified region covers less than a horizontal length of the photosensitive member that is scanned by the digital light such that variations in an amount of developer applied to nonbasic image portions are decreased.