Patent ID: 7027751

Claim:
An electrophotographic image forming apparatus comprising: a photoconductive element provided with a photoconductive layer on a surface thereof; means for uniformly charging the surface of said photoconductive element; means for exposing the surface of said photoconductive element charged by said means for uniformly charging to thereby form a latent image; a developing unit configured to develop the latent image with toner, the development unit comprising a development roller configured to feed said toner to said photoconductive element to thereby produce a corresponding toner image and to collect residual toner left on said photoconductive element; means for transferring the toner image from said photoconductive element to a subject body; means for sending air to a space around said photoconductive element; and means for dehumidifying air to be sent by said means for sending; wherein an image forming module accommodates said photoconductive element and said means for dehumidifying is disposed in the image forming module.