Patent ID: 7662533

Claim:
An image forming method comprising: forming an electrostatic latent image on an image bearing member; developing the electrostatic latent image with a developer comprising a toner to form a toner image on the image bearing member; transferring the toner image onto a receiving material; and fixing the toner image on the receiving material, wherein the image bearing member comprises a substrate, and a charge generation layer, a charge transport layer and a crosslinked charge transport layer, which are located overlying the substrate in this order, wherein the crosslinked charge transport layer comprises a compound obtained by polymerizing radical polymerizable monomers comprising a first monomer having three or more radical polymerizable functional groups and no charge transport structure and a second monomer having one radical polymerizable functional group and a charge transport structure, and wherein the toner comprises a binder resin, a colorant, and a release agent, wherein tetrahydrofuran-soluble components comprised within the binder resin have a molecular weight distribution such that at least one peak is observed in a range of from 1,000 to 10,000 and a half-width of a molecular weight distribution curve is not greater than 15,000 when the molecular weight distribution is determined by gel permeation chromatography.