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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus for preventing cleaning failures and blade missing in a blade cleaning device being one of cleaning systems in an electrophotographic system. SOLUTION: The image forming apparatus includes at least: an image carrier carrying a latent image; an electrifying means; an exposure means writing the latent image; a developing means supplying toner to the latent image to make a visible image; a transfer means transferring the visible image to a transfer medium; and a cleaning blade cleaning the surface of the image carrier after transfer. In the image forming apparatus, reversely charged toner is inputted in the non-image formation region of the surface of the image carrier. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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