Patent ID: 8481235

Claim:
A photoconductor consisting of a substrate, and an undercoat layer thereover consisting of a mixture of a metal oxide, a phenolic resin and a pentanediol ester; a photogenerating layer; and a charge transport layer and wherein said metal oxide is present in an amount of from about 30 to about 70 weight percent in said undercoat layer, said phenolic resin is present in an amount of from about 30 to about 50 weight percent in said undercoat layer, said pentanediol ester is present in an amount of about 4.8 weight percent in said undercoat layer, and wherein the total of said metal oxide, said phenolic resin and said pentanediol ester is about 100 percent and wherein said pentanediol ester is 2,2,4-trimethyl-1,3-pentanediol diisobutyrate.