Electrophotography – Cleaning of imaging surface – Removing liquid developer
Patent
1998-08-26
1999-07-27
Smith, Matthew S.
Electrophotography
Cleaning of imaging surface
Removing liquid developer
1525651, 399343, 399350, G03G 2100
Patent
active
059305762
ABSTRACT:
An image forming apparatus provides excellent images free from fogging or the like, even when highly viscous ink is used to form high-quality images, by using a simple cleaning unit capable of satisfactorily removing residual ink from a surface of an image bearing element after image transfer. The image forming apparatus of the invention further provides a viscosity reducing unit for reducing the viscosity of the ink remaining on the surface of the image bearing element after image transfer. The image forming apparatus includes a latent-image forming unit for forming an electrostatic latent image on the surface of the image bearing element; an ink developing unit for supplying ink to the surface of the image bearing element; a transfer unit for transferring the ink image formed on the image bearing element onto a recording medium; and a cleaning unit for removing the residual ink from the surface of the image bearing element after image transfer such that the viscosity reducing unit is disposed between the transfer unit and the cleaning unit.
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Minolta Co. , Ltd.
Smith Matthew S.
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