Image forming apparatus and method thereof
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsAnthony Holden, Daniel Beltzer
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Abstract
An initialization method of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes rotating a photosensitive member to receive toner along a width of the photosensitive member prior to activation of a charging unit and to remove the toner with a cleaning unit, and activating the charging unit configured to charge the photosensitive member in response to a determination of a completion of a predetermined number of rotations of the photosensitive member.
Claims15
An electrophotographic imaging method, comprising:
- receiving toner along a width of a photosensitive member prior to activation of a charging unit and in response to a determination of installation of a new print cartridge;
- rotating the photosensitive member in order to remove the toner with a cleaning unit prior to the activation of the charging unit;
- activating the charging unit configured to charge the photosensitive member in response to a determination of a completion of a predetermined number of rotations of the photosensitive member;
- and
- activating an optical scanning unit to form an image on the photosensitive member.
An initialization method of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, the method comprising:
- rotating a photosensitive member to receive toner along a width of the photosensitive member prior to activation of a charging unit and to remove the toner with a cleaning unit;
- and
- activating the charging unit configured to charge the photosensitive member in response to a determination of a completion of a predetermined number of rotations of the photosensitive member.
A computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a computer program to execute a method, wherein the method comprises:
- receiving toner along a width of the organic photoconductive drum (OPC) having poly dimethyl siloxane (PDMS) thereon prior to activation of a charging unit and in response to a determination of installation of a new print cartridge;
- rotating the OPC in order to remove the toner with a cleaning blade prior to the activation of the charging unit;
- activating the charging unit configured to charge the OPC in response to a determination of a completion of a predetermined number of rotations of the OPC;
- and
- activating an optical scanning unit configured to form a latent image on the OPC.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.