Image forming method and apparatus using tacky image forming support
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorYoshinori Machida
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an image forming method for forming an image by ink, and an image forming apparatus applied to a copier, a printer and the like, which enables the use of a water ink and forms an image of high quality. The image forming method comprises a particle image forming step for forming a particle image in a deposited pattern of particles; an ink supplying step for supplying ink to the particle image to hold the ink in a void portion between the particles of the particle image; and an ink transfer step for transferring the ink supplied to the particle image to an object.
Claims13
An image forming method comprising:
- a particle image forming step for forming a particle image in a deposited pattern of particles on a tacky support and fixing the deposited pattern to the tacky support by pressing without heating the deposited pattern of particles to the tacky support;
- an ink supplying step for supplying ink to said particle image to hold the ink in a void portion between the particles of said particle image;
- and
- an ink transfer step for transferring the ink supplied to said particle image to an object.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a support capable of carrying an electrostatic latent image;
- an electrostatic latent image forming means for forming an electrostatic latent image on said support;
- a developing means for supplying a particle developer to the electrostatic latent image formed on the support to develop the electrostatic latent image thereby forming a particle image on the support;
- a particle image transferring and fixing means for transferring the particle image formed on the support to a predetermined particle image object and fixing the particle image on the particle image object by pressing without heating the particle image onto the particle image object;
- an ink supplying means for supplying ink to the particle image fixed on the particle image object to hold the ink in a void portion between the particles of the particle image;
- and
- an ink transfer means for transferring the ink supplied to the particle image to the object.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- particle image forming means for forming a particle image in a deposited pattern of particles on a support, and for fixing the deposited pattern of particles to the support by pressing without heating the deposited pattern to the support;
- ink supplying means for supplying ink to said particle image to hold the ink in a void portion between the particles of the particle image;
- and
- ink transfer means for transferring the ink supplied to the particle image to an object.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a tacky support capable of carrying an electrostatic latent image;
- electrostatic latent image forming means for forming an electrostatic latent image on said tacky support;
- developing means for supplying a particle developer to the electrostatic latent image formed on the tacky support to develop the electrostatic latent image, thereby forming a particle image on the tacky support;
- particle image fixing means for fixing the particle image formed on the support by pressing without heating the particle image to the tacky support;
- ink supplying means for supplying ink to the particle image fixed on the tacky support to hold the ink in a void portion between the particles of the particle image;
- ink transfer means for transferring the ink supplied to the particle image to an object;
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- cleaning means for removing particles deposited on the support after the ink has been transferred to the object by the ink transfer means from the tacky support.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.