Patent ID: 8670685

Claim:
A cleaning blade mounting method comprising the steps of: (a) forming a toner layer on a toner image carrier; (b) moving the toner image carver so that the toner layer reaches a cleaning position at which a cleaning device cleans the toner image carrier; (c) after bringing a tip of a cleaning blade to be mounted into contact with the toner layer, bringing the tip into contact with the toner image carrier; (d) mounting the cleaning blade to a temporary position with a second load lower than a first load that is a contact load at a time of an image formation; (e) moving the cleaning blade with the second load from the temporary position to a final position at which a cleaning is carried out by the cleaning blade; (f) bringing the cleaning blade with the first load into contact with the toner image carrier; and (g) mounting the cleaning blade to the final position at the time of the image formation.