| abstract |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a transfer rate by an image forming apparatus by reducing a friction coefficient of a photoconductor, and further improve a cleaning property by a cleaning blade. Further, a supplied lubricant is thinned on a photoconductor, An object of the present invention is to provide an image forming apparatus provided with a coating apparatus that recovers and efficiently uses a lubricant that has not become a thin layer. An image forming apparatus 200 includes a coating device 7 that forms a thin layer of a lubricant L accommodated between a cleaning device 2 and a charging device 6 on a photoreceptor 1 with a coating blade 7a. As a result, a thin layer of the lubricant L with no unevenness can be efficiently formed on the photoreceptor 1 and cleaned with the cleaning blade 2a with a small-diameter / spherical toner, and a high-quality image can be obtained. [Selection] Figure 2 |