Patent ID: 8305405

Claim:
A digital printing method comprising: providing a nano-enabled imaging member comprising an array of hole-injecting pixels disposed over a substrate and a charge transport layer disposed over the array of hole-injecting pixels, wherein each pixel of the array of hole-injecting pixels is electrically isolated and individually addressable; generating a negative surface charge on a surface of the charge transport layer; forming a latent image by selectively addressing one or more pixels of the array of hole-injecting pixels to discharge a portion of the negative surface charge corresponding to the selectively addressed one or more pixels; providing an ink in proximity to a development nip formed by a development subsystem and the nano-enabled imaging member, wherein the provided ink comprises a charged offset ink and an optionally charged flexo ink; electrostatically developing the latent image at the development nip with the provided ink to form a developed image on the charge transport layer of the nano-enabled imaging member; and transferring the developed image from the nano-enabled imaging member onto a media.