IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

摘要

An image forming apparatus includes a developer layer former (3) which charges developer to have a predetermined polarity in a developer unit (4) and forms a uniform thin layer of the developer on a developer carrier (1), an ion irradiator (6) which irradiates ions towards the developer on the developer carrier (1) partly so as to form a reversely charged latent image thereon in accordance with recording signals (5), and a transfer unit (8) which transfers the part of the developer on the developer carrier (1) corresponding to the latent image onto a recording medium (9) directly.