Flexible belt with a skewed seam configuration

A flexible electrographic imaging belt comprising a support substrate, a dielectric imaging layer free of any electrically active material, and a permanent skewed seam having a skew angle of between about 2.degree. and about 10.degree..

A process for fabricating an electrophotographic imaging belt comprising providing a flexible electrophotographic imaging sheet comprising a support substrate, a charge generating layer, said sheet having a parallelogram shape with a pair of slanted ends opposite each other, a pair of edges opposite each other and a ground strip along at least one of said edges, said sheet having a first major exterior surface opposite and parallel to a second major exterior surface, overlapping an end of said first major exterior surface adjacent a first of said slanted ends onto an end of said second major exterior surface adjacent a second slanted of said ends to form a skewed seam having a skew angle of between about 2.degree. and about 10.degree., and securing said ends to each other to form a permanent skewed seam.

An electrophotographic imaging process comprising providing a flexible electrophotographic imaging belt comprising a support substrate, a charge generating layer, a charge transport layer, a ground strip along at least one edge of said belt and a permanent skewed seam having a skew angle of between about 2.degree. to about 10, forming an electrostatic latent image on said imaging layer, developing said latent image with toner to form a toner image, and transfering said toner image to a receiving member.