A cleaning blade, for use in an image-forming apparatus, for removing
toner which remains on a surface of a photoreceptor drum thereof, with
the cleaning blade in contact with the photoreceptor drum. The cleaning
blade is formed from a sheet composed of a thermosetting elastomer
composition. The roughness degree of a ridgeline formed longitudinally on
a cleaning blade edge which contacts the photoreceptor is set to not more
than 10 .mu.m. The straightness degree of the ridgeline is set to not
more than 100 .mu.m. In a test of supplying 150,000 sheets of paper
conducted by mounting the cleaning blade on the image-forming apparatus,
a change rate .DELTA.Re of an average roughness degree value Re of the
ridgeline formed longitudinally on the edge is set to not more than +0.7,
and a sectional length Ws45 of a wear surface of the edge, inclined at 45
degrees, which contacts the photoreceptor is set to not more than 50
.mu.m.