Patent ID: 8064812

Claim:
In an electrophotographic printer including at least one photoconductive drum at a first transfer station and at least one substrate at a second transfer station, a toner transfer belt comprising: an endless member made of at least one layer of a material having an endless functional surface provided thereon adapted to contact and receive a toner image from said drum and to transfer said toner image to said substrate; said layer of said material being textured so as to define a multiplicity of protruding portions of said material spaced apart from each other and integral with and extending outwardly from a remaining base portion of said material; said protruding portion of said material having outer tips spaced apart from one another with outer surfaces formed thereon being spaced apart from one another such that said endless surface of said endless member is comprised by said outer surfaces on said outer tip of said protruding portions of said material; wherein said protruding portions of said material are irregular in pattern and in shape relative to one another and generally undulate between valleys and peaks in said material toward and away from said base portion of said material, the valleys having differing depths relative to each other and the peaks having differing heights relative to each other.