abstract |
Provided is a toner and an image forming apparatus that can obtain high image quality with excellent reproducibility of minute dots, and can achieve high reliability corresponding to spherical toner cleaning without wearing a cleaning blade. An image carrier, a charging step, an exposure step, a developing step for developing a toner on a latent image written on the image carrier to form a visible image, a transfer step, and a fixing step. In the image forming apparatus having at least a cleaning process for cleaning the transfer residual toner on the image carrier that has not been completely transferred, the toner used for image formation is a toner produced by aqueous granulation, and the shape factor SF An image forming apparatus characterized in that the average value of −1 is in the range of 130 to 160 and the shape factor SF-1 is included in the number of particles ≦ 100% in the range of 100 to 115%. [Selection figure] None |