Patent ID: 6442363
Filing Date: 2002-08-27
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
A liquid electrophotographic printing apparatus comprising a photosensitive medium on one surface of which an image is formed; a drying roller installed to detachably contact the photosensitive medium for absorbing a liquid carrier remaining on the photosensitive medium when contacting the photosensitive medium and a transfer roller which is installed to detachably contact the photosensitive mediuim, to which the image formed on the photosensitive medium is operative to be transferred when the transfer roller contacts the photosensitive medium, and which transfers the image transferred from the photosensitive medium to a recording paper sheet,wherein the printing apparatus further comprises a carrier supply means for supplying a liquid carrier to the drying roller, the transfer roller, and the photosensitive medium, and is adapted so that the rollers and the photosensitive medium can be wetted by the liquid carrier before the image is formed on the photosensitive medium, and liquid carrier absorption and discharge between the rollers and the photosensitive medium are operative to reach equilibrium states.