Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Kenji Sugirua

Hirokazu Ishii

Naohiro Kumagai

Junpei Fujita

Seiichi Kogure

Kazuki Yogosawa

Yuuji Wada

Hiroyoshi Haga

Takehide Mizutani

Tatsuya Ohsugi

An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearer, a toner image forming device, a transfer device, a transfer bias power source, and a cleaner. The toner image forming device is to form a toner image on the image bearer. The transfer device contacts a surface of the image bearer to form a transfer nip between the transfer device and the image bearer. The transfer bias power source is to output a transfer bias to transfer the toner image from the image bearer onto a recording medium in the transfer nip. The cleaner is disposed downstream from the transfer nip in a direction of rotation of the image bearer, to electrostatically attract and remove toner from the surface of the image bearer to a surface of the cleaner. The transfer bias includes an alternating current component.

Image forming apparatus

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kenji Sugirua