To provide an image forming method which is free of drum fusion, roller staining, and the production of white stripes.
A contact electrifying means 21 is a roller which has a base 2a, a conductive layer 2b formed around the base 2a, and an elastic body 2c made of a resistance layer formed further around the layer 2b and abuts against the surface of an electrostatic charge image carrier 1; and the elastic body has 30 to 50° Asker C hardness and the electrostatic charge carrier has a ≤28 mm outer peripheral diameter and a ≥55 mm/sec peripheral speed. Further, toner has toner particles containing at least binding resin, a coloring agent, and wax and external additives, and physical relation expressed by following equation (A) circularity a = L0/L (A) (where L0 is the circumferential length of a circle having the same projection area with a particle image and L is the circumferential length of the particle image). The tonner having circularity of a ≥0.900 obtained from the equation, occupies ≥80% in integrated value in particle number.
KATO KAZUNORI
SUZUKI SHUNJI
URAWA MOTOO
