Patent ID: 7929882

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: an image development apparatus, comprising: a developer carrier that carries thereon a liquid developer being a carrier solution including dispersed toner particles each made of a coloring agent and a resin; a developer supply member that supplies the developer to the developer carrier; a developer compression member that is opposing the developer carrier, and compresses any solid content of the developer to a side of the developer carrier through application of an electric field to the developer on the developer carrier supplied by the developer supply member; a developer compression member voltage application unit that applies a voltage to the developer compression member; and a current detection unit that detects a current flowing from the developer compression member to the developer carrier; and a liquid developer dump unit that includes: an image carrier that is subjected to development of a latent image by the developer carrier; and a recycling device that collects, for reuse, any of the developer on the developer carrier corresponding to a non-image portion of the image carrier, and entirely dumps the developer being in use based on data of the current detection unit.