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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNaotaka Ikeda, Kenji Okado, Kazumi Yoshizaki, Hironori Minagawa
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In an image forming apparatus having at least one single electrostatic latent image bearing member and a plurality of image forming units each having a replenishing developer cartridge and a developing assembly, at least one of the image forming units is a special-color image forming unit having a special-color replenishing developer cartridge containing a special-color replenishing developer, and at least one of the other image forming unit is a non-special-color image forming unit having a non-special-color replenishing developer cartridge containing a non-special-color replenishing developer. The special-color replenishing developer cartridge has a volume larger than the volume of the non-special-color replenishing developer cartridge, and the special-color replenishing developer contains a toner and a carrier.
An image forming apparatus comprising a single electrostatic latent image bearing member and a cyclic image forming unit group i) which is provided in a circular arrangement with a plurality of image forming units each having a replenishing developer cartridge containing a replenishing developer, and a developing assembly, and forming respective different-color toner images on the electrostatic latent image bearing member and ii) which is so constructed that each image forming unit is rotatively movable to a development position;
A replenishing developer kit having replenishing developer cartridges holding therein replenishing developers, with respect to at least two-color color components;
An image forming apparatus comprising a plurality of electrostatic latent image bearing members and a plurality of image forming units corresponding respectively to the electrostatic latent image bearing members;
An image forming apparatus comprising a single electrostatic latent image bearing member and a plurality of image forming units which each have a replenishing developer cartridge containing a replenishing developer, and a developing assembly, and which form respective different-color toner images on the electrostatic latent image bearing member;
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.