Patent ID: 8081895

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a plurality of image carrying members; a detector that detects the wear amounts of the respective image carrying members; a plurality of rotation cleaning members disposed for the respective image carrying members and cleaning surfaces of the respective image carrying members through rotation; a controller that rotates the plurality of rotation cleaning members at different rotation speeds in accordance with wear amounts of the respective image carrying members such that a speed of each rotation cleaning member in relation to the speeds of the other rotation cleaning members corresponds with a wear amount of the corresponding image carrying member in relation to the wear amounts of the other image carrying members and such that a wear amount of each of the image carrying members is close to a wear amount of each of the other image carrying members; and scraping members, each being disposed on a downstream side of the corresponding rotation cleaning member in a rotation direction of the corresponding image carrying member, scraping an attachment on a surface of the image carrying member, and having a 100% modulus of about 6.2 to 19.6 MPa.