摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attain the improvement of maintainability and the reduction of a running cost by integrating several image carriers into a cartridge and making a developing means attachable/detachable to/from it. SOLUTION: In the color image forming device of a tandem system provided with at least two or more image forming stations in which electrifying means 42 (K, C, M and Y), the developing means and a transfer means 45 (K, C, M and Y) are arranged on the periphery of the image carrier and to form a color image by making a transfer medium pass through each station, several image carriers 41 (K, C, M and Y) are mutually positioned and attached to an image carrier cartridge 40 attachable/detachable to/from a device main body, and developing means 44 (K, C, M and Y) are constituted so as to be attachable/ detachable to/from the image carriers 41 (K, C, M and Y) attached to the image carrier cartridge 40. |