Ink delivery system for liquid electrophotographic printer

Details Ink delivery system for liquid electrophotographic printer Ink delivery system for liquid electrophotographic printer

1998-06-30

2000-01-04

Royer, William

Electrophotography

Image formation

Development

399237, 399239, 399247, G03G 1510

Patent

active

060119438

ABSTRACT:
An ink delivery system for a liquid electrophotographic printer is provided. The system includes a circulation tank connected to the development unit and in which the developer liquid to be supplied to the development unit is stored, a jet portion disposed between the circulation tank and the development unit, for jetting the developer in the circulation tank to a development gap in the development unit, an ink supplier in which concentrated ink is stored, a first supply path through which the concentrated ink accommodated in the ink supplier is supplied to the circulation tank, a carrier tank fixed in a printer body and in which the carrier to be supplied to the circulation tank is stored, a second supply path through which the carrier in the carrier tank is supplied to the circulation tank, a waste ink disposal tank connected to the circulation tank, for collecting the waste ink in the circulation tank, and a filtering mechanism installed between the waste ink disposal tank and the carrier tank, for filtering the waste ink in the waste ink disposal tank to supply the carrier to the carrier tank.

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