Full-color electrophotographic device using liquid toner

A full-color electrophotographic apparatus using a nonvolatile, high-viscosity, high-concentration liquid toner in which color toner images in a plurality of colors are sequentially superposed on an intermediate transfer member so as to form a full-color image, and the full-color image is heat-melt-transferred to a printing medium, said apparatus comprising:

• the intermediate transfer member being maintained at a temperature equal to or higher than a softening start temperature of resin contained in the liquid toner and equal to or lower than a withstand temperature of a photoconductor member;
• a carrier-removing mechanism provided on the intermediate transfer member so as to remove a carrier when each of the color toner images is transferred to the intermediate transfer member, said carrier-removing mechanism being configured such that a carrier-removing roller to which bias having the same polarity as that of toner particles on the intermediate transfer member is in rotary contact with the toner image on the intermediate transfer member so as to remove the carrier while packing softened toner by a force of an electric field induced by the bias;
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• a transfer section for pressing, by means of a backup roller, against the printing medium the toner image which has been formed on the intermediate transfer member and from which the carrier has been removed, to thereby transfer the toner image to the printing medium, and a fixation section for fixing the transferred toner image.