Patent ID: 7258958

Claim:
An image forming method comprising steps of: charging an organic photoconductor which comprises a conductive base, a charge generating layer having a layer thickness of 20 to 35 μm and a charge transport layer, wherein the charge generating layer and the charge transport layer are provided in this order on the conductive base, and wherein when a curve is drawn by plotting integrated-values of a detected current in terms of time in measurement of transient photocurrent by TOF (time of flight) measurement with an electric field intensity of 10V/μm, crossing angle θ of two tangent lines tangent to the curve is 15° to 45°, exposing the charged organic photoconductor with a light beam based on digital image data so as to form a dot latent image with a resolution of 1200 dpi or more, and developing the dot latent image formed on the organic photoconductor so as to form a toner image.