Patent ID: 8190062

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image carrier; a charging unit that charges a surface of the image carrier; a latent-image forming unit, which is included in the image carrier and includes a light-emitting element layer including light emitting elements, that forms a latent image for each of a plurality of different colors by exposing the surface of the image carrier charged by the charging unit, and that controls light emission of the light emitting elements in units of pixels to form each latent image on the image carrier; and a plurality of developing units that sequentially develop latent images formed on the image carrier, the latent images being developed with toners of the different colors including at least cyan, yellow, magenta, blue, green, and red, to form a color toner image, wherein each of the developing units develops a respective latent image at different positions on the image carrier such that the toner images of the different colors do not overlap.