Liquid electrophotographic printer developer

A liquid electrophotographic printer developer system comprising:

• a moveable, photoconductor surface with an outer bottom surface having a positively charged latent image on it, said outer bottom surface moving in a first direction at a first speed;
• a liquid toner bath containing positively charged toner particles dispersed in a liquid carrier material, the liquid toner bath having an open top surface which is beneath and within about 50-75 microns from the outer bottom of the photoconductor surface, for applying toner to the photoconductor surface;
• a positively charged developer roller with an outer surface, the said developer roller being slightly downstream of the liquid toner bath in the said first direction of movement of the photoconductor surface, and adjacent to liquid toner bath, the outer surface of said developer roller also being beneath and in close proximity to the outer bottom of the photoconductor surface, said developer roller being rotatable in a second direction opposite the said first direction of movement of the photoconductor surface at a second speed for removing excess toner particles and liquid carrier material from the photoconductor surface;
• a positively charged rigidizing/squeegee roller with an outer surface, the said rigidizing/squeegee roller being downstream from the said developer roller and in relatively close spaced-apart relationship from it, the outer surface of the said rigidizing/squeegee roller being beneath and in contact with the outer bottom of the photoconductor surface, said rigidizing/squeegee roller being rotatable in the same said first direction of movement of, and at the same said first speed as, the photoconductor surface, for removing residual liquid carrier material from the photoconductor surface;
• a common wiping means, in contact with both the said developer roller and the said rigidizing/squeegee roller to remove residual toner and liquid carrier material from both said developer roller and said rigidizing/squeegee roller;
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• a recycle means beneath the photoconductor surface, the said developer roller, the said rigidizing/squeegee roller and the common wiping means for receiving excess toner and liquid carrier material for recycling toner and liquid carrier material to the liquid toner bath.