Patent ID: 6963720

Claim:
A method of forming an image, comprising: forming a toner image by developing a latent image on an image carrying member being rotated in a predetermined rotating direction with toner, wherein the toner contains toner particles having a shape coefficient falling within a range of 1.0 to 1.6 in an amount of 65% by number or more and the toner particles has a variation coefficient of the shape coefficient of 16% or less; transferring the toner image from the image carrying member to a recording material; and cleaning residual toner remaining on the image carrying member after the step of transferring; the cleaning step comprising; removing electrostatically residual toner by contacting a surface of the image carrying member with a cleaning roller and by applying a bias voltage between the cleaning roller and the image carrying member, by a constant-current power source, and thereafter, removing mechanically residual toner by contacting the surface of the image carrying member with a tip end of a cleaning blade at a position downstream of the cleaning roller in terms of the rotating direction of the image carrying member.