| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To inexpensively provide an image forming device, using a cleaning blade and toner including spherical toner particles, and an image forming method, by which excellent cleaning performance is obtained and the lives of an image carrier and a process cartridge are prolonged. SOLUTION: This image forming device is equipped with at least the image carrier, a latent image forming means and a latent image forming stage, a developing means and a developing stage, a transfer means and a transfer stage, an elastic substance cleaning blade and a toner removing stage, and a toner band forming means and a toner band forming stage. Toner used in the image forming device and an image forming stage is constituted so that an average shape index SF expressed by following expression (1) is 100 to 135 and incorporates toner particles incorporating a lubricant component, and the toner band forming means is set so that toner amount is controlled according to image information in the image forming device and the image forming method. The expressing (1) is SF=100×πML<2> /4A. Wherein, ML and A mean the absolute maximum length and the projected are of the toner particle, respectively. |
