| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a lubricant supply device that consumes solid lubricant provided to an apparatus and used as a replacement component efficiently without waste, even when replacement cycles of the solid lubricant are set equally before and after the replacement; a process cartridge; and an image forming apparatus.SOLUTION: Solid lubricant 16b is configured to be removable from an apparatus to be a replacement component that is replaced in a predetermined replacement cycle, and is formed so that the remaining amount of the solid lubricant 16b after being used in a brand-new apparatus in the predetermined cycle and the remaining amount of solid lubricant 16b' after being provided to the apparatus subsequently as a replacement component and used in the predetermined cycle, are equal to each other. |
