Image-forming apparatus equipped with specified intermediate transfer member

Abstract

An image-forming apparatus comprises an intermediate transfer member having a hard release layer on the surface that receives a primarily transferred toner image from a latent image-supporting member on the hard release layer and secondarily transfers the toner image to an image-receiving medium, wherein, when the difference Δγsd between the dispersion-force component of surface free energy of the intermediate transfer member surface γsd(itm) and the dispersion-force component of surface free energy of the latent image-supporting member surface γsd(pc) is defined by the following Formula: Δγsd=γsd(pc)−γsd(itm), Δγsd is 5 mN/m or less.

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