摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a toner carrier giving a high quality image free from unevenness in density, less liable to a change in characteristics in long-term use and excellent in durability and to provide an image forming device with the toner carrier. SOLUTION: The toner carrier 1 carries a toner on the surface, forms a thin film of the toner, comes in contact with or approaches an image forming body and supplies the toner to the surface of the image forming body to form a visible image on the surface of the image forming body. The toner carrier 1 has a coating layer 4 comprising a material containing a resin obtained by curing a mixture of an alcohol-soluble polyamide compound having no self- crosslinkability and a melamine compound on the surface of an electrically conductive elastic layer 3. |