| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cleaning method by which stain on a latent image carrier is cleaned, and a solid image free of voids and black spots on the image and good in halftone and solid regions are obtained, using a toner excellent in fluidity and not lowering image density even after long-term use. SOLUTION: In the cleaning method in which a toner carried on a photoreceptor 1 is cleaned with a cleaning blade, the toner consists essentially of a binder resin and a colorant, a liberation rate of an additive added to toner matrix particles is 1-20%, the cleaning blade consists of first and second cleaning blades 8a, 8b, and the toner may be either of a toner obtained by melting, kneading and atomizing and a toner obtained by forming and polymerizing liquid droplets in a solvent. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO |
