Patent ID: 6973275

Claim:
An image forming device comprising: means for forming an image comprising: means for carrying an electrostatic latent image; means for developing that forms a developing nip by contacting with the means for carrying and develops the latent image by using toner; and means for transferring that forms a transferring nip by contacting the means for carrying and transfers a toner image onto a recording paper; means for impressing a transferring voltage that impresses to the means for transferring, a voltage of an opposite polarity to a polarity of a transfer process, for a prescribed period of time during a period when the recording paper is absent in the transferring nip; and means for impressing a developing voltage that impresses to the means for developing, a voltage of a same polarity as a developing process and lower than the developing process when a field impressed with the voltage of the opposite polarity by the means for impressing the transferring voltage passes the developing nip.