Patent ID: 7970300

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image supporting member; an image forming mechanism which is adapted to form an electrostatic latent image on the image supporting member; a development section which is adapted to develop the electrostatic latent image formed on the image supporting member with a liquid developer including toner so as to form a toner image; a transferring section which is adapted to transfer the toner image formed by the development section onto a recording material; an input portion which is adapted to input a property of the recording material; a toner charge amount control portion which is adapted to control an amount of a charge of the toner in the liquid developer depending on the property of the recording material inputted by the input portion before the electrostatic latent image is developed with the liquid developer; a recording material charging section which is adapted to apply a charge to a surface of the recording material; and a recording material charge amount control portion which is adapted to control an amount of the charge to be applied to the recording material by the recording material charging section depending on the amount of the charge of the toner controlled by the toner charge amount control portion.