Patent ID: 7560217

Claim:
A method of forming an electrophotographic photoreceptor having a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer, comprising the steps of: coating a coating solution containing ingredients of the photosensitive layer and a solvent medium containing one or more kinds of solvent on a conductive substrate thereby forming a coating film; and drying the formed coating film by heating by a method selected from the following (1), (2) or (3): (1) a dielectric heating method, (2) an induction heating method, and (3) two or more of heating methods selected from the group consisting of a far infrared ray heating method, a microwave heating method, a dielectric heating method, and an induction heating method, in an air stream at a temperature of 50° C. or higher and 130° C. or less, wherein the solvent medium contains 30% by weight or more of a solvent having a relative evaporation rate of less than 1.7, where the relative evaporation rate of the solvent is defined as a ratio between a time for evaporating n-butyl acetate and a time for evaporating the solvent.