The electrostatic printing method of the present invention comprises arranging and adhering an original plate which is composed of an electrode and a plate layer having built-in a letterpress, intaglio plate, or gravure plate pattern or a mask sheet having ion-permeable openings on one or both sides of an image receiving sheet having an electrode and an image receiving layer, and forming a predetermined electrostatic pattern on the image receiving layer of the image receiving sheet by applying a voltage between the electrode of the original plate and the electrode of the image receiving sheet or by performing ion irradiation through the mask sheet.

An electrostatic image developing toner includes a binder resin; and resin particles, the binder resin including an amorphous resin and a crystalline resin, the resin particles including a styrene-(meth)acrylate copolymer. When a glass transition temperature calculated using a Fox equation on the basis of proportions of monomers constituting the entire resin particles is defined as Tg(C1?) C and a glass transition temperature measured using a differential scanning calorimeter is defined as Tg(E)? C., 5.0?Tg(E)?Tg(C1)?20.0, and when a glass transition temperature calculated using a Fox equation on the basis of monomer proportions determined by surface analysis of the resin particles is defined as Tg(C2)? C., Tg(C1)<Tg(C2).

An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer, a nip former, a transfer bias supply, and processing circuitry. The nip former to form a transfer nip between the image bearer and the nip former. The transfer bias supply applies a transfer bias in which an alternating current component is superimposed on a direct current component to the transfer nip, to transfer a toner image onto a transfer target object at the transfer nip. The processing circuitry is to execute a processing mode of determining the DC component and the AC component to be used in a print job, based on a plurality of test toner images transferred to the transfer target object under transfer conditions different from each other in combination of the DC component and the AC component while changing the DC component and the AC component.