Patent ID: 6741821
Filing Date: 2004-05-25
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus having a plurality of image formation units, each image formation unit comprising:a latent image support supporting an electrostatic latent image; a charging unit charging a surface of the image support; a latent image formation unit forming an electrostatic latent image on the image support surface; a developing unit developing the electrostatic latent image with toner to form a toner image on the image support; and a transfer unit transferring the toner image from the image support to a recording medium, the image forming apparatus comprising a recording medium transport unit transporting the recording medium so that the surfaces of the image supports of the plurality of image formation units are countered to a surface of the recording medium, respectively, wherein the surface of each image support has a coefficient of friction that is in a range of 0.1 to 0.7 according to Euler belt method, and a difference between a rotation speed of each image support and a transport speed of the recording medium is below 1%, and each image support has an outermost surface containing at least a filler and a binder resin.