EP0085927A1 - Procédé d'enregistrement électrophotographique et couche photoconductrice appropriée à celui-ci - Google Patents

Procédé d'enregistrement électrophotographique et couche photoconductrice appropriée à celui-ci Download PDF

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EP0085927A1
EP0085927A1 EP83100901A EP83100901A EP0085927A1 EP 0085927 A1 EP0085927 A1 EP 0085927A1 EP 83100901 A EP83100901 A EP 83100901A EP 83100901 A EP83100901 A EP 83100901A EP 0085927 A1 EP0085927 A1 EP 0085927A1
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Roland Dr. Moraw
Günther Schädlich
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    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03G—ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY
    • G03G5/00—Recording members for original recording by exposure, e.g. to light, to heat, to electrons; Manufacture thereof; Selection of materials therefor
    • G03G5/02—Charge-receiving layers
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  • the invention relates to an electrophotographic recording method in which a photoconductor layer on an electrically conductive support is electrostatically charged, exposed imagewise, the charge image generated is made visible with a liquid developer, the deposited toner image is transferred to a copy carrier and the photoconductor layer is subsequently freed of residual toner and residual charges and one suitable photoconductor layer.
  • a photoconductor layer on an electrically conductive support is electrostatically charged and exposed imagewise.
  • the resulting latent charge image is developed with triboelectrically charged toner particles.
  • the charged toner particles are dispersed in a highly insulating dielectric liquid having a volume resistivity greater than 9 10 ohm 'cm and a dielectric constant less than 3, such as a mixture of aliphatic hydrocarbons. These dispersions are called liquid developers.
  • the toner images are transferred from the photoconductor layer to the copy carrier like paper.
  • the photoconductor layer is then cleaned of toner residues and residual charges for the next copying cycle.
  • the photoconductor layers on metallic or metallized substrates such as metal drums or endless belts made of metal-coated plastic films such as polyester films.
  • a disadvantage of liquid development is the associated discharge of dispersing liquid.
  • the copy carrier is moistened with it and must be dried. Even if the liquids in the dispersions are not toxic, their vapors pollute the environment.
  • An effective measure for reducing the discharge of dispersing liquid consists (DE-AS 23 61 833) of rotating a roller at a small distance of approximately 50 ⁇ m in the opposite direction to the photoconductor layer wetted with liquid developer. Even if the known measure already brings about a significant reduction in the discharge of dispersing liquid, an even further reduction is aimed at to reduce the environmental impact.
  • German patent application P 30 43 736.6 in a process for transferring a pigment image produced by treatment with a liquid developer from an electrostatic charge image from a charge image carrier to a copy carrier with the aid of an electric field by means of an electric field to transfer the liquid developer layer with an imagewise arranged pigment distribution over a short distance forming air to make a gap.
  • the gap is produced by spacers in the form of moving films or films arranged stationary between the charge image and copy carriers, which cover up to 10% of the copy carrier surface, or by particles which are connected to the surface of the copy carrier.
  • the arrangement of a film in the space between the charge image carrier and the copy carrier or the equipping of the copy carrier surface with spacers can, on the one hand, impair the flow of copies, on the other hand, such a measure requires additional equipment with special copy carrier material.
  • the solution to this problem is based on an electrophotographic recording method of the type mentioned at the outset and is characterized in that a photoconductor layer is used which is structured on the surface.
  • the surface of the photoconductor layer has a roughness of 5 to 75 ⁇ m, preferably 5 to 50 ⁇ m with period lengths in the range of 100 to 3,000 ⁇ m.
  • Such a structured surface can advantageously be produced by structuring the smooth photoconductor layer by pressure and heat treatment.
  • Photoconductor layers which are applied to a metallic substrate, such as those on a drum game made of aluminum, can be structured according to the invention by first mechanically removing the metallic surface and then applying and drying the photoconductor layer from solution or dispersion. This leads to corresponding structures in the form of grooves or cells on the surface of the photoconductor, for example.
  • the surface of the photoconductor layers, which are arranged on a tape carrier can be structured in such a way that the carrier tape, for example a polyester film, is first embossed using known methods, such as can be found in DE-OS 28 33 982, for example, and then the surface vaporized with aluminum and then the photoconductor layer is applied and dried.
  • the embossed structure of the carrier tape affects the surface of the photoconductor layer.
  • the smooth photoconductor surface layer produced can also be removed mechanically or the photoconductor layer can be subjected to an embossing process.
  • a structured surface of a photoconductor layer can also be achieved if indifferently acting structural elements such as pigment or polymer dispersions of a predetermined particle size are added to the solution or dispersion of the photoconductor layer material.
  • indifferently acting structural elements such as pigment or polymer dispersions of a predetermined particle size are added to the solution or dispersion of the photoconductor layer material.
  • photoconductor layers those with inorganic photoconductor such as selenium or its alloys, which is preferred, or also those made from organic materials have proven successful.
  • Figure 1 shows a section of a photoconductor drum with the aluminum support 1, which is provided on the surface with structural elements 2 and with a photoconductor layer 3, which has the same structural elements 4 of the aluminum surface in the form of elevations and depressions.
  • FIG. 2 shows schematically the structuring of the surface of a smooth photoconductor layer
  • FIG. 3 indicates sharp edges of a surface structure resulting from the structuring
  • FIG. 4 indicates the possibility of how edges according to FIG. 3 can be avoided.
  • the carrier 1 for example an aluminum drum, is provided beforehand, for example by mechanical removal, with structural elements 2 in the form of elevations and depressions such that these bring about structures 4 on the photoconductor surface through the applied photoconductor layer 3 (FIG. l).
  • the mechanical removal of carrier material can be generated by knurling, by etching or, by means of selective application of electrically conductive substances.
  • the carrier films are knurled or embossed as a layer carrier, for example made of polyester, and then subjected to metal vapor deposition, for example with aluminum.
  • the photoconductor layer 3 is applied by vapor deposition, for example with selenium, or by continuous or discontinuous solution application play by spray coating, applied.
  • a surface-structured photoconductor layer was thus produced on an aluminum drum by immersing and slowly pulling the drum out at a pulling speed of 40 cm per minute from a 10% coating solution made from equal parts by weight of poly-N-vinylcarbazole and trinitrofluorenone in tetrahydrofuran.
  • Structures 4 in the glossy photoconductor layer corresponded to the structure elements 2 on the aluminum drum.
  • photoconductor surfaces For structuring photoconductor surfaces, according to the invention it is also possible to start from initially smooth photoconductor surfaces, into which structures are subsequently introduced, for example by mechanical removal. It has surprisingly been found in such experiments that the commercially available photoconductor drums with selenium or selenium alloys can subsequently be structured by simple pressure and heat treatment, which greatly facilitates the practical implementation of the invention. With photoconductor tapes, the smooth surface of the photoconductor layer can be embossed in presses.
  • a drum 1 made of aluminum 12 cm in diameter with the photoconductor layer 3 made of selenium-tellurium was first with one layer of an embossing die 5, in the present case there were different screen printing fabrics, and then tight with shrink tube 6 with a diameter of about 120 mm and a film thickness of about 20 ⁇ m.
  • the first impressions appeared on the selenium-tellurium surface.
  • the longest permissible temperature duration without impairment of the photoconductive properties was 5 minutes, corresponding to a temperature of the aluminum substrate of approximately 75 ° C. The impressions were deeper after a longer tempering time.
  • the impressions could be graded accordingly, so that a set of superficially structured photoconductor drums of different depths of impression and structure periods was available for the copying test.
  • the photoconductor drums could be clamped in a commercially available copying machine and made with their help copies.
  • the discharge of dispersing liquid a liquid aliphatic hydrocarbon with a boiling point range of 180-230 ° C., was only 0.055 g per A4 copy.
  • the image areas for example the lines on the copies made with the surface-structured photoconductor drum with roughness depths of more than 20 ⁇ m, showed a punctiform or drop-shaped structure.
  • the elevations created by the structuring of the photoconductor surface presumably act as spacers. With roughness depths of less than 20 ⁇ m for the photoconductor surfaces, such punctiform or drop-shaped structures on the copies could not be obtained with an almost comparable reduction in the liquid discharge.
  • the recording method according to the invention can accordingly be set so that both copies with image points of point-like or drop-shaped structure and copies with image points from uniform pigment deposition can be obtained with a comparable reduction in the discharge of dispersing liquid.
  • a structuring of photoconductor layer surfaces which contain a monomeric or polymeric organic photoconductor with the help of the described shrink tube technology can take place at temperatures in the range from 60 to 120 ° C.
  • the structuring technique with the help of shrink sleeves proves to be very variable, because depending on the inserted matrix, different structure shapes can be created.
  • structures that were produced with the aforementioned screen printing fabric 5 can have sharp-edged shapes 7, as is indicated in FIG. 3. They can cause unwanted fine pigment patterns in non-image areas on the copy carrier.
  • It has proven to be expedient to avoid the sharp edges by inserting a smoothing intermediate film 8 between screen printing fabric 5 and photoconductor layer 3, for example of a smaller thickness than the shrink tube film, here made of 10 ⁇ m thick polyester film, as can be seen from FIG. 4 .
  • a structure with a largely sinusoidal cross section is then obtained.
  • the roughness depth of the photoconductor surface used for this was around 6 ⁇ m. Similar results were nevertheless achieved with different period lengths of the structures between 110 ⁇ m and 700 ⁇ m.
  • a surface-structured pnotoconductor layer was obtained by incorporating structural elements into the photoconductor layer itself.
  • the 10% coating solution was prepared from equal parts by weight of poly-N-vinylcarbazole and trinitrofluorenone in a 3% dispersion of polytetrafluoroethylene in tetrahydrofuran.
  • the dry 9 ⁇ m thick photoconductor layer on a substrate made of a 50 ⁇ m thick polyester film with a vapor-deposited aluminum layer showed peaks on the surface.
  • the photoconductor tape was stretched around a drum, negatively charged to about 950 V, exposed and developed with toner liquid.
  • the toner liquid contained positively charged pigment particles.
  • the copies were groundless, only when examined closely under a magnifying glass did the non-image areas show weak point-shaped toner deposits corresponding to the surface structure.
  • the discharge of dispersing liquid through the copies was 0.068 g of liquid aliphatic hydrocarbon per A4 copy. With superficially smooth photoconductor layers, a discharge of 0.115 g per A4 copy is otherwise measured.

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EP83100901A 1982-02-08 1983-02-01 Procédé d'enregistrement électrophotographique et couche photoconductrice appropriée à celui-ci Expired EP0085927B1 (fr)

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