Disclosed is an image forming apparatus for lowering friction coefficient
and lowering surface energy of photoconductor surface in particular,
which comprises an electrophotographic photoconductor, charging unit,
light exposure unit, developing unit, transferring unit, and fixing unit,
the electrophotographic photoconductor comprises a photosensitive layer
on a conductive support and fluoropolymer fine particles at the outermost
layer, a part of the fluoropolymer fine particles are exposed above the
surface of the outermost layer in configurations of primary particles and
secondary particles formed by flocculation of plural primary particles,
and sum of area ratios of particles in the configurations of the primary
particles and the secondary particles, each particles having an average
diameter D of 0.15 .mu.m.ltoreq.D.ltoreq.3.0 .mu.m as respective
projected figures of exposed portion above the surface of the outermost
layer, is 10% to 60% based on the entire surface area of the outermost
layer, and wherein the binder resin in the outermost layer comprises a
polyalylate copolymer resin having a structural unit of
alkylene-aryldicarboxylate.