Patent ID: 8374517

Claim:
An image forming device, comprising: an image support object; a charging unit that electrically charges a surface of the image support object which is rotated; an exposure unit that exposes the charged surface of the image support object to a light beam so that an electrostatic latent image is formed on the image support object surface; a developing unit that causes an electrically charged toner to adhere to the electrostatic latent image on the image support object surface so that a toner image is formed on the image support object surface; a monitoring unit configured to sequentially update a count value to a new count value according to a rotation state and a stop state of the image support object; and an intermittent driving unit configured to intermittently rotate the image support object according to the new count value generated by the monitoring unit after an image formation operation to form the toner image on the image support object surface is completed.