Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Haruno Nagumo

Atsushi Kaneko

Yosuke Ninomiya

Chihiro Hagiwara

An image carrier unit includes an image carrier configured to carry an image on a surface of the image carrier, a conduction member configured to establish electrical conduction of the image carrier by a contact point with the image carrier, and a shape portion configured to allow viewing of the contact point.

Image carrier unit and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier configured to carry an image; a developing unit configured to develop the image carried by the image carrier with a developer; and a developer replenishing unit configured to supply the developer to the developing unit, the developer replenishing unit being configured to predict, in advance, an amount of developer consumed by the image carrier at a start or an end of image formation apart from developer consumed in the image formation, to replenish the predicted amount of the developer.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Haruno Nagumo