| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus that includes a lubricant application device that applies a lubricant to an image carrier, and can reduce the consumption of the lubricant while suppressing the occurrence of failure resulting from the insufficient amount of the lubricant applied to the image carrier.SOLUTION: A compound machine 1 is configured to scrape off a lubricant from a solid lubricant 186 of a lubricant application device 128 with an application brush 185 and apply the lubricant to a photoreceptor drum 122. When the compound machine 1 continuously performs image formation on a plurality of sheets P, changes the interval between the adjacent sheets P on which the image formation is performed according to a toner input mode to set a toner input amount: Tg[mg], which is the total amount of a toner to be adhered onto the photoreceptor drum 122 for each of the sheets P, and applies the lubricant. |
