Patent ID: 6885843

Claim:
A wet electro-photographic printer improving a transfer efficiency, comprising: a transfer belt having an image forming surface and a single non-elastic layer; an image forming device forming an image on the image forming surface of the transfer belt by using a developing agent by an electro-photographic method in accordance with an image signal; a transfer belt cleaning apparatus removing the developing agent and foreign substances remaining on the transfer belt after the image formed on the transfer belt is transferred to a printing paper; and a transfer/fixing apparatus comprising: a subsidiary intermediate transfer unit having a subsidiary intermediate transfer roller formed of an elastic layer of a predetermined thickness disposed to contact the transfer belt to re-transfer the image to the printing paper after receiving the image from the transfer belt, a back-up unit disposed to contact the subsidiary intermediate transfer unit through the printing paper to transfer the image transferred to the subsidiary intermediate transfer unit to the printing paper, and a fixing unit simultaneously fixing the image when the image transferred to the subsidiary intermediate transfer unit is re-transferred to the printing paper.