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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHironori Owaki, Toshiyuki Ehara, Yuji Nakayama, Masaya Kawada, Takaaki Kaya, Tetsuya Karaki
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Provided are an electrophotographic method and an electrophotographic apparatus that can reduce ghost memory latent in an a-Si photosensitive member, relieve potential unevenness, and provide image copies with high quality. In an electrophotographic process of forming a toner image at least through decharging of a photosensitive member as a recording element, charging, exposing, developing, and transferring, at least a light-receiving layer of the photosensitive member is comprised of an amorphous material; a latent image is formed by the exposing with a light; the light has such a peak wavelength in an emission spectrum as to make minimum a value of optical memory at a unit contrast potential; and the decharging is implemented by use of a light having a full width at half maximum of a peak in an emission spectrum of not more than 50 nm.
An electrophotographic method for forming a toner image, the method comprising:
An electrophotographic apparatus for forming a toner image by decharging a photosensitive member as a recording element using laser light, charging the photosensitive member, exposing the charged photosensitive member to light to form a latent image, developing the latent image, and transferring the developed image onto an image receiving material, wherein at least a light-receiving layer of the photosensitive member comprises an amorphous material, the apparatus comprising:
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