Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion configured to form an image with a liquid developer containing a toner and a carrier liquid, a separating device configured to separate the toner and the carrier liquid from the liquid developer collected at the image forming portion, a first carrier supplying device supplies a first carrier liquid separated by the separating device, and a second carrier supplying device including a second carrier container to accommodate a second carrier liquid in which a ratio of the first substance to the second substance is smaller than that in the first carrier liquid separated by the separating device or no first substance is contained. An accommodating portion accommodates the liquid developer including the first carrier liquid, the second carrier liquid, and the toner, wherein the liquid developer accommodated in the accommodating portion is supplied to the image forming portion.

Abstract: Provided is a recorded material in which a recording liquid is satisfactorily fixed to a recording medium and which has a sufficient chroma and a sufficient lightness, in high-speed printing. The recorded material comprises a recording medium, a toner particle including colorant particles, and a cured resin including the toner particle and fixing a toner image formed of the toner particle onto the recording medium, wherein an average circularity of the toner particle is not less than 0.70 and not more than 0.99, the toner particle is not exposed from a surface of the cured resin, and an average distance between wall surfaces of the adjacent toner particles is not less than 10 nm and less than 125 nm.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion configured to form an image with a liquid developer containing a toner and a carrier liquid, a separating device, a first carrier supplying device, a second carrier supplying device, and an accommodating portion configured to accommodate a carrier liquid supplied from the first carrier supplying device and a carrier liquid, in which a ratio of a first substance is smaller than that in the carrier liquid collected from the separating device or no first substance is contained, supplied from the second carrier supplying device. The carrier liquid accommodated in the accommodating portion is capable of being supplied to the image forming portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image forming apparatus provided with a fixing apparatus including an infrared irradiation unit for irradiation of a recording medium, on which a liquid developer including a colorant and a cationic polymerizable monomer having a C—H bond is placed, with infrared light, and an ultraviolet irradiation unit for irradiation of the liquid developer with ultraviolet light, wherein when a peak wavelength due to the C—H bond in an infrared absorption spectrum of the cationic polymerizable monomer is defined as ?1 and a half-value wavelength at which a spectral radiant energy density of infrared light emitted from the infrared irradiation unit is 50% (when two of such half-value wavelengths are present, a half-value wavelength at a longer wavelength) is defined as ?2, the peak wavelength ?1 is located at a shorter wavelength than the half-value wavelength ?2.

Abstract: Provided is a recorded material in which a recording liquid is satisfactorily fixed to a recording medium and which has a sufficient chroma and a sufficient lightness, in high-speed printing. The recorded material comprises a recording medium, a toner particle including colorant particles, and a cured resin including the toner particle and fixing a toner image formed of the toner particle onto the recording medium, wherein an average circularity of the toner particle is not less than 0.70 and not more than 0.99, the toner particle is not exposed from a surface of the cured resin, and an average distance between wall surfaces of the adjacent toner particles is not less than 10 nm and less than 125 nm.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image forming apparatus provided with a fixing apparatus including an infrared irradiation unit for irradiation of a recording medium, on which a liquid developer including a colorant and a cationic polymerizable monomer having a C—H bond is placed, with infrared light, and an ultraviolet irradiation unit for irradiation of the liquid developer with ultraviolet light, wherein when a peak wavelength due to the C—H bond in an infrared absorption spectrum of the cationic polymerizable monomer is defined as ?1 and a half-value wavelength at which a spectral radiant energy density of infrared light emitted from the infrared irradiation unit is 50% (when two of such half-value wavelengths are present, a half-value wavelength at a longer wavelength) is defined as ?2, the peak wavelength ?1 is located at a shorter wavelength than the half-value wavelength ?2.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member; a development device; a speed varying unit that can vary a speed of a developer bearing member; a sensing portion that senses an environmental temperature around the development device; and a controller that can perform a mode in which, compared with a period which an image forming region of the image bearing member passes through the developing region, the rotation speed of the developer bearing member slows down a period which a non-image forming region of the image bearing member passes through the developing region, wherein based on sensing result of the sensing portion, the controller performs the mode when the environmental temperature is higher than a predetermined value, and the controller does not perform the mode when the environmental temperature is lower than the predetermined value.

Abstract: A developing apparatus includes a developer carrying member for carrying a developer containing magnetic particles; a magnetic member, including first and second magnetic poles which have the same magnetic polarity; a magnetic seal provided opposed to the developer carrying member at a side remote from an image bearing member. The magnetic seal has a third magnetic pole which is most closely opposed to a peak position of the first magnetic pole and which has a magnetic polarity opposite to that of the first magnetic pole, and a fourth magnetic pole which is most closely opposed to a peak position of the second magnetic pole and which has a magnetic polarity opposite to that of the second magnetic pole. Between the third and fourth magnetic poles, the magnetic seal has only one magnetic pole having a polarity opposite to that of the third and fourth magnetic poles.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus improves precision in adjudicating the type of the recording medium while also minimizing the time required to make such an adjudication. To accomplish this, the apparatus includes a storage unit that stores a plurality of types of particular shape images that configures a two-dimensional bar code. The apparatus forms a measurement pattern image for measurement, which includes one or more of the particular shape images, upon an image carrier and reads in the measurement pattern image that is formed upon the image carrier. The apparatus then determines a difference between a shape of the particular shape image that is included in the measurement pattern image and a shape of the particular shape image that is stored in the storage unit and subsequently determines an image forming condition with regard to the particular shape image stored in the storage unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member; a development device; a speed varying unit that can vary a speed of a developer bearing member; a sensing portion that senses an environmental temperature around the development device; and a controller that can perform a mode in which, compared with a period which an image forming region of the image bearing member passes through the developing region, the rotation speed of the developer bearing member slows down a period which a non-image forming region of the image bearing member passes through the developing region, wherein based on sensing result of the sensing portion, the controller performs the mode when the environmental temperature is higher than a predetermined value, and the controller does not perform the mode when the environmental temperature is lower than the predetermined value.

Abstract: A developing apparatus includes a developer carrying member for carrying a developer containing magnetic particles and for developing a latent image formed on an image bearing member; a magnetic member, provided in the developer carrying member, for magnetic confinement of the developer on a surface of the developer carrying member, wherein the magnetic member has a set of repelling poles including a first magnetic pole and a second magnetic pole which have the same magnetic polarity; and a magnetic seal provided opposed to the developer carrying member at a side remote from the image bearing member; wherein the magnetic seal includes a third magnetic pole and a fourth magnetic pole having a magnetic polarity opposite that of the first magnetic pole at a position opposed to the first magnetic pole and the second magnetic pole, respectively, and includes only one fifth magnetic pole having the same polarity as that of the first magnetic pole.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member; a first rotatable developer carrying member for carrying a magnetic one component developer to a first developing position to develop a latent image on the image bearing member; a second rotatable developer carrying member, provided downstream of the first developer carrying member with respect to a rotational direction of the image bearing member, for carrying the magnetic one component developer to a second developing position to develop a latent image on the image bearing member. The second developer carrying member is rotatable in the same rotational direction as the first developer carrying member. The image forming apparatus further includes, a first magnetic member provided in the first developer carrying member and having a plurality of magnetic poles, and a second magnetic member provided in the second developer carrying member, also having a plurality of magnetic poles.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including an electrostatic image forming device, which forms an electrostatic image on an image bearing member, a developing apparatus, which develops the electrostatic image by a development bias being applied to a developer carrying member carrying a developer, a distance changing device, which changes the closest distance between the image bearing member and the developer carrying member, a density detecting portion, which detects the density of a developer image for detection formed by the developing apparatus, and a controller operable to execute a developer lifetime detecting mode for detecting the developer image for detection formed with the closest distance changed by the distance changing device, by the density detecting portion, and informing information regarding the lifetime of the developer based on the result of this detection.

Abstract: Provide an image forming apparatus that improves precision in adjudicating the type of the recording medium while also minimizing the time required to make such an adjudication. To accomplish this, the image forming apparatus includes a storage unit that stores a plurality of types of particular shape images that configures a two-dimensional bar code. The image forming apparatus forms a measurement pattern image for measurement, which includes one or more of the particular shape image, upon an image carrier and reads in the measurement pattern image that is formed upon the image carrier. The image forming apparatus determines a difference between a shape of the particular shape image that is included in the measurement pattern image and a shape of the particular shape image that is stored in the storage unit and subsequently determines an image forming condition with regard to the particular shape image stored in the storage unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member; a first rotatable developer carrying member for carrying a one component magnetic developer; a second rotatable developer carrying member, provided downstream of the first developer carrying member with respect to a rotational direction of the image bearing member, for carrying the one component magnetic developer, the second developer carrying member being disposed in proximity with the first developer carrying member and being rotatable in the same direction as the first developer carrying member; a first magnetic member having a first magnetic pole disposed opposed to the image bearing member, a second magnetic pole disposed at a position where the first developer carrying member and the second developer carrying member are in proximity with each other, a third magnetic pole disposed between the first pole and the second pole, wherein the first pole and the second pole have the same polarity, the third pole has a polarity which is opposi

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including an electrostatic image forming device, which forms an electrostatic image on an image bearing member, a developing apparatus, which develops the electrostatic image by a development bias being applied to a developer carrying member carrying a developer, a distance changing device, which changes the closest distance between the image bearing member and the developer carrying member, a density detecting portion, which detects the density of a developer image for detection formed by the developing apparatus, and a controller operable to execute a developer lifetime detecting mode for detecting the developer image for detection formed with the closest distance changed by the distance changing device, by the density detecting portion, and informing information regarding the lifetime of the developer based on the result of this detection.

Abstract: A discharge wire usable in an electrification device includes a tungsten wire subjected to mirror finish processing and an oxidized layer formed by heating the surface of the tungsten wire at a temperature in the range 400 to 600° C., wherein the film has a thickness in the range of 0.01 to 0.3 ?m.

Abstract: In case the output of an antenna member does not return to a first level even after an execution of a toner replenishing operation for a predetermined period from a state where an image forming operation is prohibited, the toner replenishing operation is terminated. Such configuration avoids an unnecessary idle rotation of a developing device at the replacement of the developing device or in case an empty toner cartridge is mounted again on an image forming apparatus, thereby suppressing drawbacks such as an image fog or an image density loss.

Abstract: A discharge wire usable in an electrification device includes a tungsten wire subjected to mirror finish processing and an oxidized layer formed by heating the surface of the tungsten wire at a temperature in the range 400 to 600° C., wherein the film has a thickness in the range of 0.01 to 0.3 &mgr;m.

Abstract: A discharge wire usable in an electrification device includes a tungsten wire subjected to mirror finish processing and an oxidized layer formed by heating the surface of the tungsten wire at a temperature in the range 400 to 600° C., wherein the film has a thickness in the range of 0.01 to 0.3 &mgr;m.