To meet with the requirement for high-speed printing with continuous paper
used as its recording medium and to better clean a transfer roller
surface in high-speed production as well, an electrophotographic printer
is provided comprising: a carrier liquid supply unit 11 disposed at a
portion of the circumference of a transfer roller 2 between a position of
image transfer onto a recording medium 7 and a transfer roller cleaning
device 12 and including a carrier liquid supply roll 13 in rotational
contact with a surface of the transfer roller 2 for supplying a carrier
liquid onto the surface of the transfer roller 2, wherein the transfer
roller cleaning device comprises: a cleaning roll 17 rotating in rubbing
contact with the surface of the transfer roller and having a bias voltage
applied thereto which is of a polarity opposite to that of a residual
toner; a peripheral surface scraping blade 18 positioned downstream of
the cleaning roll in the rotation direction of the transfer roller and in
contact with a peripheral surface of the transfer roller; a side surface
scraping blade 19 likewise positioned downward and in contact with a side
surface of the transfer roller; and a surface scraping blade 26 disposed
at a portion of the circumference of the cleaning roll and in contact
with a surface of the cleaning roll.