An electrostatic latent image is formed on an image carrier. A developer
includes a container containing toner, a first roller facing the image
carrier and rotated to cause the toner to adhere onto the image carrier
to develop the electrostatic latent image as a toner image, a second
roller supplying the toner from the container to the first roller, and a
control member extending in an axial direction of the first roller and
brought into contact with the first roller. A tip end edge of the control
member is situated in an upstream side of a contact line that extends in
the axial direction so as to include at least one contact point between
the control member and the first roller, relative to a rotating direction
of the first roller. A distance between the tip end edge and the contact
line is not constant relative to the axial direction.