摘要:
A liquid toner composition for electrophotography comprising a dispersion which includes a carrier liquid, pigmented or dyed toner particles, an inorganic binder insoluble in the carrier liquid at room temperature and a charge control agent in a charge directing amount, said charge control agent comprising lecithin, 1% to 2.5% by weight, based on the total weight of active components in the charge control agent, of an alkylated N-vinyl pyrrolidone polymer, and 0.5% to 10% by weight, based on the total weight of active components in the charge control agent, of an oil soluble or dispersible anionic surfactant.
摘要:
An inkjet printing system for printing custom colors is provided. An ink mixing station is also provided. The printing system includes multiple ink channels, an ink cartridge sensor for each channel, and a controller. A method for printing custom colors in a printing system with multiple ink cartridges is provided. In another embodiment, the printing system includes an in situ mixed ink channel for receiving two or more ink supply dispensers and a controller. The in situ mixed ink channel includes an supply dispenser sensor and supply valve member for each supply dispenser, a mixing reservoir, a pump motor, and a print head. A method for printing custom colors using an in situ mixed ink channel is provided. The station includes an in situ mixed ink channel and a controller. A method for mixing custom color inks and filling inkjet ink containers in the station is provided.
摘要:
An apparatus for developing an electrostatic latent image in a liquid developing material-based electrostatographic printing machine including a control system for controlling an amount of marking particles, carrier liquid and/or charge director added to a supply of liquid developing material utilized for developing a latent electrostatic image such that the concentration of marking particles and or charge director can be maintained at an optimal value. The amount of marking particles, carrier liquid and/or charge director in a supply of liquid developing material is maintained at a predetermined optimal value in response to the amount of marking particles and/or charge director depleted from the supply of liquid developing material with each development cycle. A supply reservoir is maintained with a substantially constant amount of liquid carrier to which is added marking particles and/or charge director to provide an operative solution of liquid developing material. For each development cycle, the amount of marking particles and/or charge director depleted from the supply of liquid developing material is determined as a function of the number of picture elements or pixels making up the image being developed. Marking particles and/or charge director concentrate are added to the supply reservoir to maintain the amount of marking particles and/or charge director in the operative solution of liquid developing material at a predetermined value by effectively supplying the marking particles and/or charge director lost by the transport of liquid developing material to the copy substrate.
摘要:
A system and method for color mixing management in an electrostatographic printing system, wherein a developing material reservoir containing an operative solution of colored developing material including a mixture of selected color components is continuously replenished with selected differently colored developing material concentrates in a predetermined ratio so as to be capable of producing a customer selectable color image area on an output substrate. The present invention may also be utilized to mix a customer selectable color in situ, either from stored proportions known to compensate for developability differences or from approximate amounts of primary color components initially deposited and mixed in the developing material reservoir with the resultant operative developing material mixture continually developed and replenished with a predetermined ratio of color components until the developing material mixture reaches a steady state color.
摘要:
A liquid composition for developing latent electrostatic images comprising toner particles associated with a pigment dispersed in a nonpolar liquid. The salient feature of the invention is that the toner particles are formed with a plurality of fibers of tendrils from a thermoplastic polymer and carry a charge of a polarity opposite to the polarity of the latent electrostatic image. The polymer is insoluble or insolvatable in the dispersant liquid at room temperature. The toner particles are formed by plasticizing the polymer and pigment at elevated temperature and then either permitting a sponge to form and wet-grinding pieces of the sponge or diluting the plasticized polymer-pigment while cooling and constantly stirring to prevent the forming of a sponge while cooling. When cool, the diluted composition will have a concentration of toner particles formed with a plurality of fibers.
摘要:
An electrophotographic liquid toner composition having lower saturation density and method of reducing the saturation density comprising a toner particle formed from a resin, a solid pigment, and a transparent filler, said pigment and said transparent filler having similar surface energies such that they impart similar triboelectric charging properties to said composition, and said composition is further characterized in that the triboelectric properties of said composition are substantially equivalent to the triboelectric properties of a reference composition in which said filler is not present and in which the combined amount of said pigment is equal to the amount of pigment in said reference composition, and in that said transparent filler lowers the saturation density of said composition so that the saturation density of said composition is lower than the saturation density of said reference composition.
摘要:
A process for preparing a coated image and a recording medium with a coated image thereon. The coated image includes a solid ink image prepared with solid ink and an overcoat that at least partially covers the solid ink image. An aqueous overcoat composition for application to a solid ink image containing at least one latex emulsion, at least one polymer wax or wax emulsion, and at least one co-binder.
摘要:
A fuser member component to fuse the transferred developed image to the copy substrate, wherein the fuser member includes a substrate, an outer polymeric layer, and a release agent material coating on the outer polymeric layer, and the release agent material coating includes a blend of at least two different amino-functional siloxane release agent materials having amino-functional groups, and the at least two different amino-functional siloxane release agent materials have the following Formula I: wherein A represents —R4—X, wherein R4 represents an alkyl group having from about 1 to about 10 carbons, X represents —NH2 or —NHR5NH2 with R5 representing an alkyl group having from about 1 to about 10 carbons; R1 and R2 are the same or different and each is selected from the group consisting of an alkyl having from about 1 to about 25 carbons, an aryl having from about 4 to about 10 carbons, and an arylalkyl; R3 is selected from the group consisting of an alkyl having from about 1 to about 25 carbons, an aryl having from about 4 to about 10 carbons, an arylalkyl, and a substituted diorganosiloxane chain having from about 1 to about 500 siloxane units; b and c are numbers and are the same or different and each satisfy the conditions of 0≦b≦10 and 10≦c≦1,000, but both b and c must not be 0 at the same time; d and d′ are numbers and are the same or different and are 2 or 3, and e and e′ are numbers and are the same or different and are 0 or 1 and satisfy the conditions that d+e=3 and d′+e′=3.
摘要翻译:一种定影器构件,用于将转印的显影图像熔合到复印基板,其中定影器构件包括涂层在外部聚合物层上的基底,外部聚合物层和脱模剂材料,并且脱模剂材料涂层包括 具有氨基官能团的至少两种不同的氨基官能的硅氧烷脱模剂材料和所述至少两种不同的氨基官能的硅氧烷脱模剂材料具有下式I:其中A表示-R 4 - X,其中R 4表示具有约1至约10个碳的烷基,X表示-NH 2或-NHR 5 NH, 其中R 5代表具有约1至约10个碳原子的烷基; R 1和R 2相同或不同,并且各自选自具有约1至约25个碳的烷基,具有约4个碳原子的芳基 至约10个碳原子,和芳基烷基; R 3 3选自具有约1至约25个碳的烷基,具有约4至约10个碳的芳基,芳烷基和取代的二有机硅氧烷链,其具有约1个 至约500个硅氧烷单元; b和c是数字并且相同或不同,并且各自满足0 <= b <= 10和10 <= c <= 1,000的条件,但b和c两者不得同时为0; d和d'是数字,相同或不同,为2或3,e和e'为数字,相同或不同,为0或1,满足d + e = 3和d'+ e'= 3。
摘要:
A fuser member having a substrate, a layer thereover including a polymer, and, on the polymeric layer, a coating of a release agent having a mixture of (a) an organosiloxane polymer concentrate containing amino-substituted organosiloxane polymers, wherein there are amino functional groups on at least some of the polymer molecules of the concentrate, the concentrate has a degree of functionality of from about 0.3 to about 0.4 mole percent, the concentrate has a viscosity of from about 800 to about 1,300 centistokes; and (b) a nonfunctional organosiloxane polymer diluent, the diluent has a viscosity of from about 100 to about 2,000 centistokes; the mixture has a degree of functionality of from about 0.05 to about 0.3 mole percent, wherein the mixture has a viscosity of from about 550 to about 1,300 centistokes, and wherein the ratio by weight of concentrate to diluent is from about 1:2 to about 1:30, and an image forming apparatus having the fuser member.