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AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorsHiroyuki Saito, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Tomohiro Kawasaki, Ryoei Ikari, Tatsuya Furuta, Aiko Kubota
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An image forming apparatus that forms an image on a transfer material in an image forming mode, includes: a photoreceptor rotatable in a predetermined rotation direction; a developer that forms a toner image on the photoreceptor using a two-component developing agent including toner and a carrier; a transferor that transfers the toner image on the photoreceptor onto the transfer material; a carrier collector that applies an electric field corresponding to a collecting bias to a carrier adhering to the photoreceptor to collect the carrier; a carrier detector that detects a carrier remaining on the photoreceptor after collecting the carrier by the carrier collector; and a hardware processor that sets the collecting bias in the image forming mode on the basis of the amount of carriers detected by the carrier detector when a carrier adhesion detecting mode for forcibly causing a carrier to adhere to the photoreceptor is executed.
An image forming apparatus that forms an image on a transfer material in an image forming mode, the image forming apparatus comprising:
A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable control program for controlling an image forming apparatus comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.