| 摘要 |
<p>A liquid toner based imaging machine (10) includes a movable photoconductive carrier (11) having an electrostatic latent image thereon. A developing station (15) is provided containing a source of toner liquid (16) that includes charged toner particles. The station (15) is operatively associated with the carrier (11) for contacting the same with the liquid (16) thereby developing the latent image by effecting the transfer of toner particles to the image. The developing station (15) includes a developer electrode (17) charged to a voltage intermediate voltages on the carrier (11) representative of background and information in the image for attracting toner particles to an elemental area of the electrode (17) when the electric field (E) between the carrier (11) and the electrode (17) is directed towards the elemental area. The deposition of toner particles on the surface of the electrode (17) is inhibited during development of the image by coating the surface of the electrode (17) facing the carrier (11) with a fluorosilicone polymer (22).</p> |
