Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Takuto Kobayashi

Hisashi Taniguchi

Shinichi Agata

Keitaro Nakata

An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member, a charging member, a developing member, a cleaning member, an accommodating portion, and a controller capable of executing an image forming operation and a supplying operation for supplying a metal soap, accommodated in the accommodating portion, onto a surface of the image bearing member by the developing member. The controller carries out control so that when the supplying operation is executed, a surface moving speed of the image bearing member is higher than a surface moving speed of the image bearing member when the image forming operation is executed.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Takuto Kobayashi