| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To display information relating to use history or a life of a cartridge on a developer carrier as visible information with a simple configuration, so as to allow a user to easily recognize whether a member provided to the cartridge can be reused. <P>SOLUTION: A cartridge 5 including a developer carrier for developing an electrostatic latent image can be attached to and detached from an image forming apparatus 100. The image forming apparatus 100 includes detection means for detecting a usage state of the cartridge 5, and forms a developer image that indicates the usage state on the developer carrier. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT |
