Patent ID: 8310509

Claim:
A direct digital making method comprising: providing a nano-enabled imaging member, the 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; providing a negatively-biased development subsystem in proximity to the nano-enabled imaging member to form a development nip there-between; generating a surface charge contrast at the development nip on a surface of the charge transport layer by selectively addressing one or more pixels of the array of hole-injecting pixels, wherein the one or more selectively addressed pixels inject holes at the interface of each of the one or more pixels and the charge transport layer and the charge transport layer transports the holes to the surface; developing the surface charge contrast with a developing material at the development nip to form a developed image on the surface of the charge transport layer; and transferring the developed image from the charge transport layer onto a media.