摘要:
A developing apparatus (4) has a developer supporting member 41 with a surface roughness R z in the rage from 3.0 to 5.5 µm and a one-component developer T with a bulk density in the range from 0.35 to 0.55g/ml, and an image is developed by forming a layer of the developer T on the developer supporting member 41. This makes it possible to form a thin toner layer stably despite changes in ambient conditions, and to prevent low image density and fogging. The absolute value of the amount of electric charge with which the developer T is charged is preferably in the range from 3.0 to 10.0 µC/g. The developer supporting member 41 is made preferably of stainless steel.
摘要:
The invention relates generally to processes for electrostatic image development, and setpoints that provide uniform image development. In particular, an apparatus and process having a magnetic brush that implements hard carriers and a rotating magnetic core within a shell is disclosed. The process implements one or more of the following optimum setpoints: a range of shell surface speeds that provide uniform toning density, a range of shell surface speeds that prevent toner plate-out, a skive spacing that minimizes sensitivity to variation, a magnetic core speed that minimizes sensitivity to variation, and an imaging member spacing that minimizes sensitivity to variation.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a developing device including a rotatable, nonmagnetic developer carrier and a magnetic field forming device. In a developing region where the developer carrier faces an image carrier, the magnetic field forming device causes a developer made up of toner and magnetic grains to rise on the developer carrier in the form of a magnet brush. In the developing region, the magnet brush on the developer carrier is caused to move at a higher speed than the surface of the image carrier in the same direction as and in contact with the surface of the image carrier, thereby developing the latent image. The toner of the developer is magnetic toner. Flux density set up in the developing region outside of the surface of the developer carrier in a normal direction has an attenuation ratio of 50 % or above.
摘要:
An image forming method which forms a two color toner image or an image made up of two types of toners of the same color includes forming a first image with discharged area development (DAD) and a second image with charged area development (CAD). Resolution and sharpness of the first toner image is improved if the second toner image is formed by imagewise exposing a photoconductive member through a transparent base. Scavenging of the first toner image by the development of the second toner image and other aspects of the method are improved by use of a rotating magnetic core to drive a developer containing hard magnetic carrier in a soft brush through contact with the electrostatic image.
摘要:
An apparatus and method for non-interactive, dry powder development of electrostatic images comprising: an image bearing member bearing an electrostatic image; two component developer comprising toner and permanently magnetized carrier beads, the carrier having average diameter (2a) and magnetization M b a developer transporting member having a thickness t for transporting a developer layer of the two component developer, the layer spaced close to and out of contact with the image bearing member, and wherein the developer layer is substantially without chains of carrier beads, a multipole magnet member disposed in close proximity behind the transporting member and moving relative to it so as to sweep poles across its surface, the magnet member having a periodic magnetization of spatial frequency k and a peak magnetization M 0 wherein M b, t, k, and M 0 , are chosen such that M b is sufficiently large to prevent the escape of developer, and a quantity is greater than about 1/3.
摘要:
An image forming method is disclosed. The method comprises steps of supplying developer (50) onto the surface of a developing roller (141) having a high magnetic field not less than 1000 G at the surface thereof, and making color superposed images on an image carrier (1) by repeating twice or more the step of non-contact-developing a latent image formed on the image carrier through an oscillating electric field formed between the developing roller and the image carrier. A carrier in the developer has a volume average particle size of not more than 50 µm and the saturation magnetization amount σ S of the carrier particles is not more than 50 emu/g. A toner having narrow particle size distribution is preferably used.