Abstract: A rotary, multi-bladed cleaner provides increased life expectancy, up to 15-25 times the life of a single blade cleaner. Such a cleaner has been found to be highly reliable due to its ability to frequently change brush surfaces and by provision of a redundant system that enables multiple blades to contact the surface to be cleaned at once. The blade cleaner has a paddle-wheel type cross-sectional shape with a plurality of radially extending blades spaced around the periphery thereof. The blades are spaced to be closely adjacent one another such that one and preferably two or more blades contact the residual image at one time. The rotary blade cleaner is preferably rotated at a slow rotation rate with the blades being in contact for only a limited time before being displaced by the next blade(s). Such a rotary cleaner is particularly suited for cleaning residual toners and inks from a photoreceptive surface.

Abstract: An imaging system for effecting electrostatic printing of an image, wherein the imaging system includes at least one contact electrostatic printing engine operable in a novel fashion upon a copy substrate, wherein the contact electrostatic printing engine images and develops an electrostatic latent image representative of the image on an imaging member, and subsequently transfers the developed image from the imaging member to the copy substrate in a direct adhesive transfer step.

Abstract: A relatively hard cleaning blade for use in a cleaning apparatus in an imaging apparatus for cleaning residual toner particles, including dry and liquid ink toners and carriers, from an imaging surface, the cleaning blade having a material having a hardness of from about 86 to about 120 Shore A.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for forming a uniform layer of liquid developer which apparatus includes, for example, a coater for depositing liquid developer on a first movable substrate to form a first toner layer; a second movable substrate for contacting the first toner layer on the first substrate to form a uniformly thin second toner layer on the first substrate, wherein the directional movement of the first movable substrate surface is contrary to the directional movement of the second movable substrate surface, and wherein at least one of the first substrate surface and the second substrate surface conforms to an opposing surface; and a photoactive member for receipt and formation of latent image thereon and for receipt of a toner layer for development of the latent image by the toner layer.

Abstract: Disclosed are ionographic imaging apparatuses and processes. One apparatus comprises an imaging means, means for applying to the imaging means a liquid material capable of forming a dielectric peel layer adhering to the imaging means, ionographic writing means for generating a latent image on the peel layer, means for developing the latent image on the peel layer, and means for simultaneously transferring the peel layer bearing the developed image from the imaging means to a substrate and affixing the peel layer bearing the developed image to the substrate.