Patent ID: 7437115

Claim:
An image forming method for an image forming device having an electrostatic latent image carrier, developing means having a toner carrier, the developing means forming a toner image on the electrostatic latent image carrier surface by toner carried on the toner carrier, and transferring means transporting a toner image on the electrostatic latent image carrier to a recording medium, comprising: a toner discharge process that transports toner having a specific polarity from the toner carrier to the electrostatic latent image carrier; a first refresh process that transports the toner having the specific polarity on the electrostatic latent image carrier being transported between the toner carrier and the transferring means to the transferring means by impressing upon the transferring means a voltage having a polarity opposite that of the toner having the specific polarity, and makes the toner having the specific polarity absorb adherends adhered to the transferring means; and a return process that transports the toner having the specific polarity that has absorbed the adherends on the transferring means to the electrostatic latent image carrier by impressing upon the transferring means a voltage having a polarity that is the same as the toner having the specific polarity on the transferring means.