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An image forming apparatus with good cleaning properties is provided. An image holding member, a charging unit, an electrostatic charge image forming unit, a developing unit, a transfer unit, a fixing unit, and a toner remaining on the surface of the image holding unit without being transferred are cleaned. And a cleaning means having a blocking member for blocking toner scraped off from the surface of the image holding member and collecting the toner on the upstream side in the rotation direction of the image holding member at a position where the blade contacts the image holding member. The toner includes a binder resin, a toner particle containing a paraffinic wax having a melting temperature of 60 ° C. or higher and 80 ° C. or lower, and an external additive, and the melting temperature of the crystalline resin and the wax The absolute value of the difference from the melting temperature is 10 ° C. or less, the volume average particle size of the toner particles is 6 μm or more and 9 μm or less, the toner particle shape factor SF1 is 140 or more, and the toluene insoluble content of the toner is 25 An image forming apparatus having a mass% of 40% by mass or less. [Selection] Figure 2 |