摘要 |
PURPOSE:To prevent a photosensitive body from absorbing moisture and condensing dew, and an image from bleeding at the time of forming an image by attaching a hydrophobic material to the photosensitive body in a step preceding an electrically charging step. CONSTITUTION:The hydrophobic material is attached to an electrostatic latent image bearing body in the step preceding the charging step. For example, undecane CH3(CH2)9CH3 as the hydrophobic organic material is uniformly sprayed on the surface of the photosensitive body 1 made of an amorphous silicon containing H through a nozzle 8, and an excess of the hydrophobic material is removed with a blade 9, and the hydrophobic material is allowed to adapt itself to the surface of the photosensitive body 1. Then, the photosensitive body 1 is uniformly charged by corona discharge of 6kV with a charger 2, imagewise exposed by using white light as an exposure light source 3 to form an electrostatic latent image, the latent image is developed with a toner in a developing device 4. The toner image is transferred to a plain paper with a transfer fixing device 5, and the, the photosensitive body 1 is destaticized with a destaticizing light source 6, and cleaned with a cleaning blade 7.
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