Abstract: A toner for a two component developer used in a high speed computer output printer has about 20 parts gelled styrene/acrylic resin, 40 parts acrylate resin, about 13 parts hydrogenated wood rosin ester with pentaerythritol, and about 18 parts rosin ester of pentaerythritol, as well as carbon black and a charge control agent. Exceptional improvement is noted in carrier deterioration, fuser roller life and photoconductor filming.

Abstract: Electronic printers, wherein multi-page documents to be printed are received as character code signals to be applied to a pattern generator for mapping and rasterization, electronically store the character code signals of a multi-page document for repeatedly presenting the stored signals to the pattern generator in the proper sequence to produce a plurality of collated printed sets. If the number of skip cycles required while the print engine waits for the pattern generator to finish mapping a particular page during the first printing of the document exceeds a threshold, the print engine will assume a shut down mode during mapping of that page on subsequent printings.

Abstract: In multi-color reversal development, good color balance is obtained by changing the time duration of exposure for each different color frame. A dot printer apparatus produces a series of different color-resolved electrostatic latent images on a recording member. The apparatus includes an array of discrete elements for dot recording on the recording medium. The elements are selectively enable for predetermined periods of time during a cycle of operation to form a color-resolved electrostatic latent image on the recording member. Each charge latent image is developed with selected toner particles according to its resolved color. A control signal representative at least in part of the resolved color of each latent image is produced, and the control signal determines the enablement time of the elements during each cycle of operation according to each resolved color.

Abstract: A corona-charging apparatus for charging successive image area segments of a charge-receiving element, which corona-charging apparatus is capable of adjusting the charging rate from one segment to the next while minimizing the transition region between successive image area segments, includes electrode means for creating a corona discharge and a composite grid between the electrode means and a moving charge-receiving element. The composite grid includes a plurality of conductive controlled grid sets with at least one grid wire per set. The grid sets are spaced in the direction of movement of the charge-receiving element, and the voltage on each grid set is adjustable independently of the voltages on the other grid sets. Regulator means are provided for synchronizing the voltage of each grid set with the movement of the charge-receiving element.

Abstract: An electrographic copy machine of the type having an image transfer member, means for producing document images in an image area of the image transfer member, and means for producing test patch images on the image transfer member is disclosed. The machine includes apparatus for selectively controlling whether or not the test patch images are transferred from the image transfer member to the copy sheets by selectively aligning or not aligning the copy sheets and the test patches on the image transfer member and effecting the transfer of images from the image transfer member to a copy sheet aligned with the images to be transferred, whereby the copy sheets receive or do not receive images of the test patches in accordance with the relative positions of the copy sheets and the test patches on the image transfer member.

Abstract: A corona-charging apparatus includes a conductive control grid, at least one corona-emitting electrode, and means for providing a current supply to the electrode. Current is sinked from the grid through a variable resistance, and means are provided for sensing the voltage produced on the insulating surface to be charged.The electrode power supply is AC, and the grid current sink includes a rectifier circuit. Means, responsive to the sensed voltage adjust the conductivity of the variable resistance in accordance with a predetermined program to thereby maintain the charge on the surface substantially constant.

Abstract: Apparatus for producing finished booklets from a plurality of sheets includes an assembly station where a set of sheets are assembled together to form a booklet and a collection station for receiving booklets produced in the assembly station. A door on the apparatus is ordinarily closed to limit access by an operator to the assembly station and the collection station during operation of the apparatus. The door is opened for removal of assembled booklets from the collection station. A passage is provided for delivering a booklet from inside the apparatus to a position where the booklet is accessible from the outside of the apparatus. A booklet can be engaged after it is assembled in the assembly station and delivered through the passage to the outside of the apparatus where it can be examined by the operator during production of additional booklets. By obtaining a booklet in this manner, and without opening the door, the operator is not exposed to the mechanical and electrical mechanisms of the apparatus.

Abstract: A hot roll, for use in a xerographic hot roll fuser, is made by coating a hollow aluminum cylinder with an elastomer, as by the use of an injection molding machine. After molding, the external surface of the elastomer cylinder is ground slightly to improve its concentricity. Thereafter, this ground external surface is subjected to the chemical influence of an acid. After a predetermined time period, the acid treatment is terminated and the roll is washed in water. The resulting hot roll, whose external surface has been chemically modified, possesses improved dry-release properties.

Abstract: A hot roll, for use in a xerographic, dry-release, hot roll fuser, is made by a method which adds iron-containing, magnetically permeable, particles to the elastomer as the elastomer is mixed. The particles may be pre-coated with a silane adhesive promoter. The mixed elastomer is then injected around a hollow, cylindrical aluminum core. As the elastomer sets up, in the mold, a magnetic field is applied such that the iron-containing particles migrate toward the metal core, and away from the exterior surface of the elastomer. This exterior surface will later be used to fuse xerographic toner. After the elastomer has set, its external surface is ground slightly, to produce a true circular-cylinder, but without exposing the underlying, more dense, layers of iron particle filler. As a result, the elastomer-to-core interface is mechanically strong, and yet the fusing property of the elastomer is not degraded by the presence of filler.

Abstract: Flash lamps operate in two modes depending upon the position of the platen cover of a copier. In the first mode, the platen cover is closed and a short duration relative high-peak intensity flash pulse illuminates a document at the exposure platen. In the second mode, the cover is raised or opened to accommodate a three-dimensional object, such as a magazine or book, and a flash pulse having a longer time interval but lower peak intensity is provided.

Abstract: A xerographic hot roll fuser whose hot roll's soft, elastomeric outer surface is formed of a mixture of 70 parts polymethylvinylsiloxane where the vinyl groups are terminating groups, and 30 parts of a blended polymer consisting of the polymethylvinylsiloxane and polymethyl-H-siloxane in which the hydride function is greater than two.