| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image formation method to stably obtain a high quality electrophotographic image. <P>SOLUTION: An image formation method employs an image forming device that comprises: a developer carrier; and an elastic blade which contacts with a surface of the developer carrier and regulates a layer thickness of a developer carried by the developer carrier. The method includes a development process to develop an image by transferring the developer carried on the surface of the developer carrier to a surface of an electrostatic latent image carrier. The developer carrier has a substrate and a resin layer. The resin layer includes an inorganic fine particle, a binder resin, a graphite particle and an embrittlement region formed by increasing an abundance ratio of the inorganic fine particle to the binder rein on the surface side of the resin layer. The development process uses the developer carrier obtained through a grinding process to expose the graphite particle on the surface of the embrittlement region of the resin layer by grinding at least a part of the embrittlement region of the resin layer with the elastic blade. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |
