| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus in which a load for recovering a developer on a photoconductor or an intermediate transfer body is reduced, and to provide a computer program and a computer system for the same. <P>SOLUTION: The image forming apparatus includes an image carrier to form a latent image, and a rotatable developer carrier for visualizing the latent image formed on the image carrier as a developer image with the developer. The image forming apparatus has an operation mode for making the developer carried on the circumferential surface of the developer carrier adhere to a non-image formation area on the image carrier by rotating the developer carrier. An operation for making the developer carried on part of the circumferential surface of the developer carrier adhere to the non-image formation area is carried out more than once in the operation mode. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO |
