| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus that uses a protective agent block capable of supplying a protective agent uniformly to an image carrier so as to stably perform high-quality image formation.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus that presses a brush or an elastic body against a protective agent block including a metal soap and boron nitride as main components to pulverize the protective agent block, and applies the pulverized protective agent on an image carrier. When the protective agent pulverized by pressing with the brush or the elastic body into fine powder is measured by an ATR method (crystal: Ge, incident angle: 45°, reflection once, and pressure force: 3 kg/1.5 mm&phgr;), a peak area ratio obtained from an IR spectrum Mr=A/Ais larger than a peak area ratio of the surface of the protective agent block Mr. (Ais the peak area of BN, and Ais the peak area of the metal soap.) |
