Patent ID: 8023847

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: an image carrier that carries an image; a charging section that electrically charges the image carrier; an exposure section that exposes the image carrier to light to form a latent image; a development section that develops the latent image by means of a liquid developer containing carrier and toner particles; a first squeezing roller that is held in contact with the image carrier carrying the image developed by the development section and adapted to bear a bias voltage Vs 1 applied thereto; a second squeezing roller that is held in contact with the image carrier squeezed by the first squeezing roller adapted to bear a bias voltage Vs 2 applied thereto; and a transfer member that is held in contact with the image carrier squeezed by the second squeezing roller and adapted to receive the image transferred thereto; an absolute value of the bias voltage Vs 1 and an absolute value of the bias voltage Vs 2 showing a relationship of |Vs 1 |>|Vs 2 |.