CLEANING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent generation of wax filming and to prolong a life of an image carrier by providing no mechanical stress to toner and the image carrier in a cleaning device to perform cleaning on the image carrier. SOLUTION: In the image forming apparatus containing modified polyester having urea coupling at least as toner binder and in which dry type spherical toner of which the temperature range of the surface of a fixing member to be brought into contact with a fixed image with 5 to 30% of glossiness is >=50 (deg) and containing wax finely dispersed inside is used, the cleaning is performed on the image carrier by forming an electric field to electrostatically adsorb the toner adhered on the image carrier on the side of a cleaning roller (cleaning means) 2 between the cleaning roller 2 and the image carrier 1 to the cleaning roller 2 of the cleaning device 11 by applying voltage from a power supply 6 to a core wire 5.