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An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor that has a photosensitive layer constituting a surface, a charging device that charges the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, an electrostatic charge image forming device that forms an electrostatic charge image on the charged surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, a developing device that contains a developer and develops the electrostatic charge image formed on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor by the developer as a toner image, a transfer device that transfers the toner image formed on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor to a surface of a recording medium, and a cleaning device that has a cleaning blade coming into contact with the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor and cleaning at least residual toner particles on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, in which the photosensitive layer in the electrophotographic photoreceptor contains a polyester resin (1) that has a dicarboxylic acid unit (A) represented by Formula (A) and a diol unit (B) represented by Formula (B), a tip angle θ<1> of a contact portion of the cleaning blade coming into contact with the electrophotographic photoreceptor is 95° or more and 110° or less, a 100% modulus of the cleaning blade at the contact portion with the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor at 23°C is 13 MPa or more and 22 MPa or less, and an action angle θ of the cleaning blade with respect to the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor is 8° or more and 30° or less, <img class="EMIRef" id="a1d2d370-00e5-421d-bbee-189374f8300f-ia01" /> <img class="EMIRef" id="a1d2d370-00e5-421d-bbee-189374f8300f-ia02" /> in Formula (A), Ar<A1> and Ar<A2> are each independently an aromatic ring that may have a substituent, L<A> is a single bond or a divalent linking group, and n<A1> is 0, 1, or 2, in Formula (B), Ar<B1> and Ar<B2> are each independently an aromatic ring that may have a substituent, L<B> is a single bond, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or -C(Rb<1>)(Rb<2>)-, and n<B1> is 0, 1, or 2, where Rb<1> and Rb<2> are each independently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 or more and 20 or less carbon atoms, an aryl group having 6 or more and 12 or less carbon atoms, or an aralkyl group having 7 or more and 20 or less carbon atoms, and Rb<1> and Rb<2> may be bonded to each other to form a cyclic alkyl group.

An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor that has a photosensitive layer constituting a surface, a charging device that charges the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, an electrostatic charge image forming device that forms an electrostatic charge image on the charged surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, a developing device that contains a developer and develops the electrostatic charge image formed on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor by the developer as a toner image, a transfer device that transfers the toner image formed on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor to a surface of a recording medium, and a cleaning device that has a cleaning blade coming into contact with the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor and cleaning at least residual toner particles on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, in which the photosensitive layer in the electrophotographic photoreceptor contains a polyester resin (1) that has a dicarboxylic acid unit (A) represented by Formula (A) and a diol unit (B) represented by Formula (B), and a contact portion of the cleaning blade with the electrophotographic photoreceptor has an impregnated cured layer of a composition that contains an isocyanate compound and at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of a fluorine-based polymer and a silicone-based polymer, <img class="EMIRef" id="0ec9dcc9-e131-4488-b75d-2aa6d3b9d065-ia01" /> <img class="EMIRef" id="0ec9dcc9-e131-4488-b75d-2aa6d3b9d065-ia02" /> in Formula (A), Ar<A1> and Ar<A2> are each independently an aromatic ring that may have a substituent, L<A> is a single bond or a divalent linking group, and n<A1> is 0, 1, or 2, in Formula (B), Ar<B1> and Ar<B2> are each independently an aromatic ring that may have a substituent, L<B> is a single bond, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or -C(Rb<1>)(Rb<2>)-, and n<B1> is 0, 1, or 2, where Rb<1> and Rb<2> are each independently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 or more and 20 or less carbon atoms, an aryl group having 6 or more and 12 or less carbon atoms, or an aralkyl group having 7 or more and 20 or less carbon atoms, and Rb<1> and Rb<2> may be bonded to each other to form a cyclic alkyl group.

A control panel cover includes an attachment member that allows the control panel cover to be attached to a control panel that at least includes an operable portion to be operated by a user and a light emitter that conveys information to the user with light emitted by the light emitter, a restrictor that restricts an operation to be performed on the operable portion when the control panel cover is attached to the control panel using the attachment member, and an expander that is located in an area irradiated by the light emitter with the light emitted from the light emitter when the control panel cover is attached to the control panel using the attachment member, to expand an area irradiated with the light.

An intermediate transfer body includes a semiconductive layer containing at least one resin selected from the group consisting of a polyimide resin, a polyamideimide resin, an aromatic polyether ether ketone resin, a polyphenylene sulfide resin, and a polyetherimide resin, conductive carbon particles, and at least one silicone oil selected from the group consisting of dimethyl polysiloxane and an organic group-substituted dimethyl polysiloxane, in which a number of conductive paths calculated based on three-dimensional structural analysis of a cross section of the semiconductive layer in a thickness direction is 110 or more, and a value obtained by subtracting a volume resistivity ρv (log Ω·cm) of the semiconductive layer from a surface resistivity ρs (log Ω/□) of the semiconductive layer is 1.5 or more and 2.0 or less.

An information processing system includes a processor configured to perform, in registering a recording medium in a medium information group that is a set of medium information in which a characteristic of the recording medium and image forming control information for controlling image forming on the recording medium are associated with each other, a control of acquiring measurement information that is information related to a measured physical property of the recording medium, a control of displaying a matching registration candidate based on the acquired measurement information, and a control of displaying, in displaying two or more registration candidates, a screen on which test printing of at least one of the two or more registration candidates is executable.

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to execute a control of displaying pseudo progress status related to measurement of a recording medium by a medium measuring device regardless of actual progress of measurement of the recording medium by the medium measuring device, and a control of displaying, then, progress status in accordance with actual measurement status of the medium measuring device.

An information processing system includes a processor configured to perform a control of storing a medium information group that is a set of medium information in which a physical property of a recording medium and image forming control information for controlling image forming on the recording medium are associated with each other, a control of acquiring measurement information that is information related to a measured physical property of the recording medium, a control of determining that the image forming is unavailable for the recording medium based on the acquired measurement information, a control of registering, in registering the physical property of the recording medium in the medium information group, the unavailability of the image forming for the recording medium in the medium information, and a control of displaying, in displaying information on the registered recording medium from the medium information group, the unavailability of the image forming for the recording medium in association with the recording medium.

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to execute a control of displaying a registration screen for registering plural pieces of information on a recording medium, and a control of displaying a specific mark in association with an input item to be automatically input from a measurement result of a medium measuring device that measures the recording medium among input items related to the plural pieces of information on the recording medium.

An image forming control apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire a measured value of characteristics of a recording medium used for image formation; acquire a predetermined reference value related to the characteristics of the recording medium; and execute control of outputting information corresponding to a difference between the measured value and the reference value.

An information processing device includes a processor configured to: acquire a medium information group in which characteristics of a recording medium are associated with a print parameter that governs printing on the recording medium; and modify the medium information group using information pertaining to properties of the recording medium.