Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Satoshi Shinguryou

Yasuhiro Takahashi

Sadao Takahashi

Yoshiyuki Kimura

Shinichi Kuramoto

Kiyoshi Tanikawa

Tadashi Saitoh

Yoshiaki Miyashita

Kazuhiro Ando

Youichi Asaba

In a method and an apparatus for removing an image forming substance such as toner from an image holding member such as a sheet of transfer paper, an unstabilizing agent is provided to the image holding member. An attaching state between the image forming substance and the image holding member stably attaching the image forming substance on a surface thereof is changed to an unstable state by the unstabilizing agent. The image forming substance is separated and removed from the image holding member by making a separating member come in close contact with the image forming substance on the image holding member having the provided unstabilizing agent. A processing situation mark showing a processing situation of removal of the image forming substance is formed in the image holding member. The processing situation mark can be removed from the image holding member by the image forming substance removing processing.

Method and apparatus for removing image forming substance from image

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Kawasaki, Japan

Satoshi Shinguryou