Patent ID: 8682220

Claim:
An image forming apparatus that forms a toner image by using toner which includes external additives to develop a latent image which is formed via charging and exposure on a surface of a photosensitive drum, and that transfers the toner image onto a transfer material, the apparatus comprising: a static elimination unit that irradiates static elimination light onto the surface of the photosensitive drum before the surface of the photosensitive drum is charged, and removes any charge remaining on the surface of the photosensitive drum after it has completed the transfer; the static elimination unit is provided with a plurality of light sources having substantially the same light emission characteristics and that extend along the rotation axis of the photosensitive drum; a static elimination intensity adjustment device that, compared with inner side areas of a paper feed width, lessens an amount of the static elimination light irradiated onto areas which, when viewed in a direction of a rotation axis of the photosensitive drum, are on an outer side of a paper feed width and are also on an inner side of a developing width; and in the static elimination intensity adjustment device, an interval between the light sources which is responsible for the areas which are on the outer side of the paper feed width and are also on the inner side of the developing width is longer than that interval of the areas on the inner side of the paper feed width.