Patent ID: 7466326

Claim:
An image forming method, comprising: charging uniformly a surface of an organic photoreceptor while rotating the organic photoreceptor; exposing the charged surface of the photoreceptor with a light beam having a wavelength in the range of 350 nm to 500 nm in a main scanning direction to form a dot-shaped electrostatic latent image on the photoreceptor; and developing the dot-shaped electrostatic latent image with toner to form a dot-shaped toner image on the photoreceptor so as to satisfy the following formulas: 1.1≦B/A≦1.5 and 10≦A≦50, where A is a length (μm) of an exposed dot of the dot-shaped electrostatic latent image in the main scanning direction, and B is a length (μm) of a toner dot of the dot-shaped toner image in the main scanning direction.