Outlook of Liquid Development Technology

Abstract

The liquid development technology has the potential ability to produce the images of offset printing quality in the electrophotographic technology, and this excellent potentiality is admitted widely. Moreover, some experimental models based on the liquid development method had been proposed and there have been considerable researches so far. However, there is only a limited product of liquid toner process in a commercial printing industry, despite the remarkable breakthrough of the dry toner electrophotographic system as the POD (Print On Demand) technology.
In this thesis, look back on the transition of the liquid development technology and clarify the technical issue to be studied.