near the surface of the recording paper 5 as shown in fig2 the magnetic toner 2 is placed in the hopper 1 below which is disposed the nonmagnetic sleeve 4 with the sleeve 4 being provided with the permanent magnet 3 having a plurality of magnetic poles on the outer peripheral surface thereof a nonmagnetic guide member 6 39 is disposed beneath the nonmagnetic sleeve 4 for supporting the recording paper which is for example a zinc oxide paper with a photoconductive layer coated on its surface at a predetermined position relative to the nonmagnetic sleeve 4 the guide member 6 39 may for example be a nonmagnetic metal plate with fine slits provided in a portion thereof to which light is directed or a plate of a material pervious to light such as for example nesa glass the light signal 7 such as for example a laser beam or the like is directed toward the guide member 6 39 from the rear side thereof a corotron 8 is provided to uniformly electrify the surface of the recording member in accordance with the recording method in fig2 after the surface of the recording paper 5 is uniformly by the corotron 8 the recording paper 5 is fed into the gap d between the nonmagnetic sleeve and the guide member 6 in the direction of the arrow d the nonmagnetic sleeve 4 and the permanent magnet 3 are rotated relative to one another for example the nonmagnetic sleeve 4 is fixed and the permanent magnet 3 is rotated in the direction of the arrow c to.