Image-forming apparatus equipped with specified intermediate transfer member

摘要

An image-forming apparatus comprises an intermediate transfer member having a hard release layer on the surface that receives a primarily transferred toner image from a latent image-supporting member on the hard release layer and secondarily transfers the toner image to an image-receiving medium, wherein, when the difference Deltagammasd between the dispersion-force component of surface free energy of the intermediate transfer member surface gammasd(itm) and the dispersion-force component of surface free energy of the latent image-supporting member surface gammasd(pc) is defined by the following Formula: <?in-line-formulae description="In-line Formulae" end="lead"?>Deltagammasd=gammasd(pc)-gammasd(itm),<?in-line-formulae description="In-line Formulae" end="tail"?> <?in-line-formulae description="In-line Formulae" end="lead"?>Deltagammasd is 5 mN/m or less.<?in-line-formulae description="In-line Formulae" end="tail"?>