| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a color electrophotographic device capable of saving resources by making a service life prolonged, a running cost lowered, and waste toner reduced, in a small size, at high speed, through simple constitution that is to say, providing a path spatially connecting the waste toner box with a development hopper. SOLUTION: As for this device, the image forming unit is provided with an electrifying device 10, an organic photoreceptor 9 forming the toner image, the development hopper 14 for gathering the toner, and the waste toner box 51 for gathering the waste toner recovered by a cleaning blade 27. The plural image forming unit is respectively arrayed in a annular shape and a whole body is made possible to rotate as one body, and the path 52 spatially connecting the waste toner box 51 with the development hopper 14 is disposed. Thus, the totter is allowed to pass through the path 52, and the toner is made possible to freely shift between the development hopper 14 and the waste toner box 51, therefore the waste toner becomes available for developing again. |
