IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member on which an electrostatic latent image is formable; and a developing device including a developer carrying member, a container, and a supply roller, wherein when the developing device including the developer carrying member, to which a lub...

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Hauptverfasser: Mochizuki, Masataka, Naito, Norihito, Yamauchi, Hisashi
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member on which an electrostatic latent image is formable; and a developing device including a developer carrying member, a container, and a supply roller, wherein when the developing device including the developer carrying member, to which a lubricant different from the developer is applied, is used for the first time, a first initial operation of transferring the lubricant from the developer carrying member to the image bearing member together with the developer is performed, and wherein the image forming apparatus further includes: a storage unit configured to store a suspension state when suspension is detected before the initial operation completes; and a controller configured to execute a second initial operation as an operation of resuming the suspended first initial operation on the basis of the stored suspension state.