An image-forming apparatus, equipped with an intermediate transfer member
3 having a surface layer that holds a toner image primary-transferred
from a latent image-supporting member temporarily on the surface layer
and allows secondary transfer of the toner image held thereon to an image
receiving medium, wherein, when the moving distance of the intermediate
transfer member surface from the secondary transfer region 15 to the
first primary-transfer region 16 is designated as L (mm) and the moving
speed of the intermediate transfer member as S (mm/second), the residual
surface potential of the intermediate transfer member L/S seconds after
application of the secondary transfer voltage is 1/20 or less of the
first primary transfer voltage V1.