| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an intermediate transfer belt and an image forming apparatus which can keep initial excellent flexibility and transferability even after long-time use and sufficiently suppress image density reduction and occurrence of dropout image for an extended time. <P>SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer belt 1 having a surface-reformed elastic layer 3 on a surface, with surface hardness higher than 0.01 GPa, and displacement larger than 50 nm when pressed with a load of 20 μN. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |
