In a developing assembly, a process cartridge and an image-forming method, a
specific
developer and a specific developer-carrying member are used in combination. The
developer comprises toner particles containing at least a binder resin and a colorant,
and conductive fine particles; the toner particles having a Circularity a of less
than 0.970 as found from the following expression:
where L0 represents the circumferential length of a circle having
the same projected area as a particle image, and L represents the circumferential
length of a projected image of a particle.
The developer-carrying member has at least a substrate and a resin coat layer
formed on the substrate; the resin coat layer containing at least a coat layer
binder resin and a positively chargeable material.
