Abstract: An improvement to the method and apparatus of producing multiple copies of a document using a copy machine having an arsenic selenide photoconductive layer and wherein a development technique is used that is capable of providing uniformly-filled solid areas. The improvement includes the step of exposing the photoconductive layer to light energy prior to uniformly charging the photoconductor for each copy to be produced with such light energy and the light energy used for exposing the charged photoconductor to the light image of the document selected in terms of light energy and spectral distribution to establish a stablized fatigue level for the photoconductive layer thereby eliminating objectionable image density variations between successive copies made of the original.