摘要:
A wet color image forming apparatus and method of using the same is provided. The wet color image forming apparatus includes a transfer belt, which is formed of a plurality of layers including a surface layer contacting a sheet of paper. A hardness of the surface layer is reduced by removing carbon from a material constituting the surface layer. The apparatus also includes a transfer roller which applies pressure to the transfer belt to transfer the color image formed on the transfer belt onto the sheet of paper.
摘要:
In an image forming apparatus having at least an amorphous silicon photosensitive member, a magnetic toner developing means and a color developer developing means, the magnetic toner has a weight-average particle diameter (D4) of from 4.0 nullm to 10.0 nullm and a ratio thereof to number-average particle diameter (D1), D4/D1, of from 1.0 to 2.0, and the number of magnetic particles not passing through a mesh with an opening of 34 nullm which are contained in the unit volume of the magnetic toner is from 3.5 to 105. This image forming apparatus can not easily cause faulty cleaning performance even in using the magnetic toner and the non-magnetic color toners in combination and has superior environmental stability and running stability even where toners made to have small particle diameter are used or process speed is high.
摘要:
An image formation apparatus is provided with a photosensitive drum, an optical writing device which writes an image on the outer surface of the photosensitive drum, a developing device which develops the image using toner an intermediate transfer belt onto which the toner image on the photosensitive drum is transferred, a rotation angle detection unit which detects the rotation angle of the photosensitive drum, an eccentric detection unit which detects the amount eccentricity of the photosensitive drum from the rotary axis of the photosensitive drum, and a correction unit which, obtains eccentricity of the photosensitive drum based on the amount eccentricity, the rotation angle and the radius of the photosensitive drum, and corrects a distortion and a color offset in the toner image based on the obtained eccentricity.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus has a plurality of developing devices for developing an electrostatic image formed on an image bearing member, a rotary member holding the plurality of developing devices and rotated in a route including a developing position, the rotary member selectively positioning any one of the developing devices at the developing position, each of the plurality of developing devices having a first developer carrying member and a second developer carrying member for carrying a developer thereon and carrying it to the image bearing member, and a holding member holding the first developer carrying member and the second developer carrying member and pivotally movably provided.
摘要:
In a case where a rotating speed of an intermediate transfer member is reduced during the process of image formation, carriers may adhere to a photosensitive member before the rotating speed of the intermediate transfer member stabilizes. To cope therewith, in changing an image formation speed in accordance with a conveying speed of a recording material on completion of primary transfer, a developing rotary is rotated so as to keep any developing device off a developing position. Consequently, a situation in which the carriers adhere to an image bearing member can be avoided. At the same time, stopping a charging operation of a charger enables a longer service life of the image bearing member.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes: a photosensitive drum; an exposing unit for exposing the photosensitive drum so as to form latent images as to the respective colors of one print; a developing device for developing the latent images formed on the photosensitive drum; an intermediate transfer belt abutting against the photosensitive drum, for temporarily holding a toner image; a secondary transfer roller arranged in such a manner that the secondary transfer roller can be contacted/retracted with respect to the intermediate transfer belt so as to transfer the toner image to a document; and an intermediate transfer member cleaner arranged in such a manner that the intermediate transfer member cleaner can be contacted/retracted to/from the intermediate transfer belt 15 so as to remove residual toners left on the intermediate transfer belt. In the image forming apparatus, the secondary transfer roller contacts with the intermediate transfer belt before exposing operations of the exposing unit are accomplished with respect to all colors of toner images in one print, and is retracted from the intermediate transfer belt before an exposing operation by the exposing unit with respect to a next print is commenced.
摘要:
This invention provides: a color toner to be fixed on a recording medium with a flash light comprising a binder resin, an infrared ray absorbent and a coloring agent for mainly developing a yellow color, wherein the coloring agent is C.I. Pigment Yellow 180 or C.I. Pigment Yellow 185; a color toner to be fixed on a recording medium with a flash light comprising a binder resin, an infrared ray absorbent and a coloring agent for mainly developing a magenta color, wherein the coloring agent is C.I. Pigment Violet 19; and a color toner to be fixed on a recording medium with a flash light comprising a binder resin, an infrared ray absorbent and a coloring agent for mainly developing a cyan color, wherein the coloring agent is C.I. Pigment Blue 15. Also disclosed are a color toner set comprising these color toners and an image forming apparatus employing at least one of the color toners or the color toner set.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a color image forming device for forming toner images of a plurality of colors on a medium, and is for improving second transfer efficiency from an intermediate transfer body to the medium. The device has image forming units (12-1 to 12-4) for forming the toner images of the plurality of colors on at least one image bearing body (14-1 to 14-4) by a plurality of developing units (22-1 to 22-4) respectively accommodating toner of different colors; an intermediate transfer body (24); primary transfer means (38-1 to 38-4) for primary transferring the toner images of the plurality of colors onto the intermediate transfer body sequentially for the respective colors; and secondary transfer means (45) for secondary transferring the toner images of the plurality of colors on the intermediate transfer body onto the medium. The image forming units form the toner images of the plurality of colors so that the potentials of toner layers transferred onto the intermediate transfer body (24) are progressively lower in the order in which the plurality of colors are transferred. Since the potential of the toner layer directly adhered to the intermediate transfer body is higher, the directly adhered toner layer becomes easier to be secondary-transferred, and thereby, the secondary transfer efficiency is improved and the reproducibility of the secondary color is improved.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of developing devices each including a developer carrying member for carrying a developer to develop an electrostatic latent image formed on an image bearing member, and a developer regulating member for regulating the developer carried on the developer carrying member; common voltage applying means for applying a common voltage to the plurality of develop our regulating members, wherein a first one of the developer carrying members is rotating, and a second one of the developer carrying members is not rotating, a potential difference between the second developer carrying member and the common voltage is smaller than a voltage difference between the first developer carrying member and the common voltage.
摘要:
The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus comprising a plurality of movable image carriers, a movable intermediate transfer body, and contacting means separably contacting to said intermediate transfer body at a contacting position. Said image carrier located most closely to said contacting position in a direction extending along said intermediate transfer body on a downstream side in a moving direction of said intermediate transfer body with respect to said contacting position. Said image carrier located most closely to said contacting position in a direction extending along said intermediate transfer body on an upstream side in a moving direction of said intermediate transfer body with respect to said contacting position. A toner image formed on said intermediate transfer body is again transferred onto a transfer material after passing through said first transfer position and said second transfer position. And formula La-Sa Lm is satisfied where a distance from said contacting position to said first transfer position along the moving direction of said intermediate transfer body is set as La, where a distance from said exposing position on said first image carrier to said first transfer position along the moving direction of said first image carrier is set as Sa, and where an image length formed on said intermediate transfer body is set as Lm.