ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTER AND CLEANING SYSTEM WITH SCRAPER CLEANING SYSTEM

摘要

Electrophotographic printers and cleaning systems for an electrostatic imaging member are provided. In one aspect the cleaning system has a scraper a mounting holding the scraper so that a free length of the scraper extends from the mounting and a frame positioning the mounting relative to the electrostatic imaging member so that the scraper extends along a holding angle toward the electrostatic imaging member and so that the mounting is separated from the electrostatic imaging member by an extension distance along the holding angle that is less than the free length with the scraper resiliently deflecting to fit within the extension distance to define a working angle where the scraper contacts the electrostatic imaging member. The extension distance is within a range of extension distances that cause the scraper to have a working angle that is within a range of working angles are greater than the working angles of an alternative range of working angles if the scraper were to be positioned within an alternative range of extension distances that is greater than the range of extension distances.