Patent ID: 7883825

Claim:
A method for forming an image onto a recording medium comprising: preparing a liquid developer containing an insulation liquid and toner particles dispersed in the insulation liquid; storing the liquid developer in a liquid developer container; forming an electrostatic latent image onto a photoreceptor; developing the electrostatic latent image formed on the photoreceptor using the liquid developer supplied from the liquid developer container to form a toner image on the photoreceptor; transferring the toner image formed on the photoreceptor onto a recording medium; and fixing the toner image transferred on the recording medium onto the recording medium, wherein at least a part of the insulation liquid in the transferred toner image is oxidized and polymerized by heating the transferred toner image and irradiating it with ultraviolet rays during the fixing process to fix the toner particles in the transferred toner image onto the recording medium.