| 摘要 |
A toner cleaning system for cleaning a toner from a supporting surface, including a movable member having a carrier permeable segment that features a porous structure. The movable member is actuated to engage the supporting surface so as to receive therefrom the toner at an exterior surface of the carrier permeable segment. A quantity of carrier fluid is provided at an interior surface of the carrier permeable segment. The carrier permeable segment supports carrier fluid flow from the interior surface to a portion of the received toner so as to disengage the portion of the received toner from the carrier permeable segment. The disengaged toner portion is then susceptible to collection and re-use. Embodiments of the toner cleaning system are operable in an imaging system for effecting electrostatic printing of an image, wherein the imaging system includes at least one contact electrostatic printing engine operable for imaging and development of a latent image representative of the image, and subsequent transfer of the developed image to a copy substrate.
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