A new technique for the transfer of electrostatic images (TESI) is described.
The TESI method provides unique applications, for example, to electrostatic printer free from drum cleaning and to thermoplastic recorder. In the conventional TESI method, the recording medium consists of a dielectric layer and a conductive layer (10
9—10
12Ω surface resistivity). The latter serves to supress the abnormal air breakdown which deteriorates the quality of the recorded pictures.
However, it is possible to transfer latent images to dierectric films without the conductive layer. In this new technique, AC corona neutralizes the biasing charge immediately after the image transfer. By this neutralization, the biasing charge density of the film becomes equal to the transfered image charge density, so as to enable a very stable transfer.
The experimental and theoretical investigations of the new TESI method and practical considerations for stabler transfer are described.
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