Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus comprising:

• an image holding member that holds an image formed on a surface of the image holding member;
• a latent image forming device that forms an electrostatic latent image on the image holding member;
• a developing device that contains a developer therein and develops the latent image with the developer;
• an image density detector that detects a density of the image formed by the developing;
• a first condition section that derives, from the density of the image detected by the image density detector, a forming condition in forming an image by an image forming section including the latent image forming device and the developing device such that the density of the image formed by the image forming section comes close to a predetermined target density;
• an environmental detector that detects an environmental state of the image forming section;
• a second condition section that derives, from the environmental state detected by the environmental detector, a forming condition that is previously made to correspond to an environmental state of the image forming section such that the density of the formed image becomes the target density;
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• a stabilization section that causes, when a difference between respective forming conditions acquired by the first condition section and the second condition section exceeds a predetermined degree, the image forming section to perform a stabilization operation in which a developing property of the developer in the developing device is stabilized with respect to a current environmental state, and thereafter cause the formation of the image by the image forming section, the density detection by the image density detector and the derivation of the forming condition by the first condition section to be performed again.