Semiconductive roller

Abstract

A semiconductive roller is provided which includes a roller body including a tubular inner layer of an inner layer elastic material containing a softener, and an outer layer of an outer layer elastic material provided on an outer periphery of the inner layer. The outer layer elastic material has a swelling percentage of not higher than 1% as measured when the outer layer elastic material is immersed in the softener at 100° C. for 24 hours. Thus, the semiconductive roller has proper flexibility to be substantially free from imaging failures such as white voids, image density reduction and fogging, and is less liable to cause the contamination of a photoreceptor body and the like and the associated defective image formation which may otherwise occur due to the bleeding of the softener.

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