Patent ID: 8204393

Claim:
A method for electrographic printing of color images on a final image carrier in which charge images of images to be printed are generated on a charge image carrier and are developed into toner images with toner, the toner images being transferred onto an intermediate carrier from which they are transfer-printed at a transfer printing station onto the final image carrier, comprising the steps of: generating the charge images for individual colors of the color image in succession on the charge image carrier and developing the charge images into individual color toner images with color toner; transferring the individual color toner images onto the intermediate carrier where they are collected atop one another in a color collection cycle to form a complete color toner image, the intermediate carrier being moved further by one revolution after acceptance of each of the color toner images; before transfer printing of the complete color toner image on the final image carrier, pivoting the final image carrier onto the intermediate carrier, and after the transfer printing pivoting the final image carrier away from the intermediate carrier; and after transfer printing of the complete color toner image, transferring the color toner images for the next complete color image from the charge image carrier onto the intermediate carrier after an end of the pivoting of the final image carrier away from the intermediate carrier.