Abstract
Liquid toner electrophotography previously suffered a problem whereby the quality of color toner images were degraded in the transfer process. In the new transfer method adopted to solve this problem, the developed and accumulated color toner image on the photoreceptor will be carried through two steps. In the first step, the color toner image is moved onto the intermediate transfer media under the shearing and pressing stresses, without fusing to be film. In the second step, the color toner image is moved onto the paper by the sticking force of itself, which has arisen under the heated and pressed conditions. By using this non-electrostatic transfer method, liquid toner electrophotography shows its best performance. The transfer phenomena and its characteristics, however, are not sufficiently understood. We attempted to analyze the dynamics of the elastic material used for the intermediate transfer media. Our conclusion is that elastic and frictional forces work more effectively than tacking forces among the materials in this transfer process.
