Image forming apparatus, and recycle processing apparatus for recycling image forming unit

Abstract

An excellent image forming state is secured constantly regardless of the history of an image forming unit installed. When a new drum cartridge is installed in a copying machine during a standby pending operation of a copy switch on a control panel, CPU reads the number of rotations of a photoreceptor drum from a memory of the drum cartridge, and updates a count of a counter C with the number of rotations read. When the copy switch is operated, CPU derives a grid voltage corresponding to the count of counter C from a relationship between the number of rotations of photoreceptor drum and the grid voltage of the electrostatic charger pre-stored in ROM, executes an image forming process by setting the grid voltage derived to a high-voltage source, and adds the number of rotations of photoreceptor drum made in the current image forming process to the count of counter C.

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