An image-forming apparatus with multiple toner image-forming units that
form toner images by developing electrostatic latent images by means of a
developer containing a nonmagnetic toner and a magnetic carrier. Each of
the toner image-forming units has a photoreceptor, a developing device
that develops an electrostatic latent image borne on the surface of the
photoreceptor, and multiple cleaning rolls, which have a magnetic
particle layer of magnetic particles at the surface that are located in
the state freely rotatable and in contact with or in the neighborhood of
the surface of the photoreceptor. Furthermore, the cleaning rolls absorb
nonmagnetic toners present on the surface of the photoreceptor on the
magnetic particle layer thereof by rotation and the photoreceptor is
rotating at a peripheral velocity of approximately 200 mm/sec or more.