An image forming apparatus and a process cartridge have high-durability
and stably form high quality images under long-term use without reducing
image density even when concentration of discharge products at the
surface of an electrophotographic photoconductor becomes uneven in a
discharge region of a charging unit. The apparatus employs an image
forming method and has a corona discharge type charging unit discharging
in a non-contact manner, the photoconductor placed to face the charging
unit and the outermost surface layer thereof contains a filler and an
amine compound with a specific structure, and an airflow adjusting device
which carries air taken from the outside of the apparatus to the vicinity
of the charging unit or the photoconductor so that ozone concentration
and unevenness thereof are maintained at an average of 30 ppm or less and
15 ppm or less respectively at the surface of the photoconductor in the
discharge region.