| 摘要 |
Disclosed is a printing apparatus for printing an image onto a print medium with use of a liquid developer which contains a liquid carrier and a toner being dispersed in the liquid carrier. The printing apparatus has: an image holding member having an imaging surface on which a latent image corresponding to the image to be printed is generated: a development unit which provides the liquid developer to the imaging surface to form a toner image corresponding to the latent image; a transfer member which transfers the toner image from the imaging surface to the print medium; and a fibrous wipe member having a cleaning face contacting with the imaging surface for wiping a residual toner falling to be transferred from the imaging surface by moving relatively to the imaging surface in a first direction. The fibers on the cleaning face have a directional distribution which is biased to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
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