Shin-etsu Polymer Co., Ltd.

Zeon Corporation

Toyo Tire Rubber Co., Ltd.

Yamanashi Electronics Co., Ltd.

Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Sokuei Motoda

Masahiro Ikeda

Kazunori Shigemori

Tomoharu Takeuchi

Fuminori Tsuruta

Muneharu Ito

Toshiyuki Nagai

Toshiro Murano

Isao Harashima

Norihiko Akegamiyama

Kiyoshi Ootani

Ryo Nakajima

Heat conducting unit

In an image forming method including a charging step, an exposure step, a development step using a developing roll, a transfer step, a fixing step and a cleaning step of removing a toner remaining on the surface of a photosensitive member after the transfer step, the developing roll has a surface brightness of 30 to 220 and a surface roughness Rz of 1 to 20 &#x3bc;m, the cleaning blade is a cleaning blade made of a polyurethane elastomer and having a peak value of at most 0.95, a peak temperature of &#x2212;15 to 10&#xb0; C. and a width at half maximum of at least 25&#xb0; C. in viscoelasticity tan &#x3b4;, the toner has a volume average particle diameter of 4 to 10 &#x3bc;m and an average circularity from 0.950 to 0.995, the charge level of the toner on the surface of the photosensitive member is 10 to 80 &#x3bc;C/g in terms of an absolute value, and the pH of a water extract of the toner is 3 to 8.

Image forming method

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