| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus and an image forming method by which occurrence of an abnormal image due to high-speed repeated use is suppressed and high-resolution images can stably be formed over a prolonged period of time, and to provide a process cartridge. SOLUTION: The image forming apparatus is equipped with at least a latent electrostatic image bearing member, a latent electrostatic image forming unit, a developing unit, a transferring unit and a fixing unit, wherein the transferring unit is configured to apply a positive electric potential to a visible image formed on the latent electrostatic image bearing member via a recording medium, and the latent electrostatic image bearing member has a surface layer on a photosensitive layer. The surface layer comprises a hardened material of at least a trifunctional or more radical polymerizable compound having no charge transporting structure, a radical polymerizable compound having a charge transporting structure, and a reactive silicone compound having any one of an acryloyloxy group and a methacryloyloxy group, and the concentration of the reactive silicone compound in the surface layer is varied in between the surface part and the innerlayer part of the surface layer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
|
