Patent ID: 6986977

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: an image recording member; a transferring particle layer forming equipment which forms a transferring particle layer on at least a part of the image recording member; a development equipment which forms at least a part of a toner layer with toner particles on a surface of the transferring particle layer according to image information and with a liquid developer containing the toner particles and a liquid carrier in a manner that the toner layer is superimposed on the transferring particle layer; and a transfer equipment which divides the transferring particle layer into a first layer adjacent to the toner layer and a second layer adjacent to the image recording member, the transfer equipment transferring the toner layer to a transfer medium together with the first layer of the transferring particle layer while the second layer of the transferring particle layer remains on the image recording member, wherein a coagulation force among transferring particles in the transferring particle layer is smaller than an adhesive force of the transferring particle layer to the image recording member.