Photocopying – Contact printing – Light boxes
Patent
1992-09-18
1994-03-29
Smith, Matthew S.
Photocopying
Contact printing
Light boxes
355271, 355272, 355277, 355279, 355282, 355285, 355290, G03G 1500
Patent
active
052989453
ABSTRACT:
An electrophotographic printing machine is provided with a photoreceptor drum including a transparent cylindrical base having a transparent electrically conductive layer and a photoconductive layer laminated in this order on a surface thereof and a dielectric belt in contact with the photoconductive layer. The photosensitive layer is exposed while voltage is being applied across an electrically conductive toner and a transparent electrically conductive layer, thereby forming a toner image on the photosensitive layer. After the toner image on the photosensitive layer is transferred to the dielectric belt which temporarily carries the toner image, the copying material is superimposed on the toner image, and heat and pressure are applied to the toner image respectively from a heater and a pressurizing roller. Since the melted toner is transferred onto the copying material using the adherence of the transfer sheet without using electric Coulomb force, the efficiency in transferring the toner image to the copying material is not affected by the electric surface resistance of the copying material. An image can therefore be formed using the electrically conductive toner even on a copying material of low electric surface resistance such as a normal transfer sheet.
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Oikawa Tomohiro
Tsukamoto Kimihide
Wada Takasumi
Conlin David G.
Corless Peter F.
O'Connell Robert F.
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
Smith Matthew S.
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