Toray Industries, Inc.

Eizo Kanaya

Yoshihiro Chujo

Shigehiro Hano

Jun Inagaki

Hidetoshi Hara

Tetsuya Aiyama

Satoru Kato

Yoshinobu Takatsuki

Takanobu Hagiwara

Hiroyuki Aonuma

Naoki Kobayashi

Koichi Sugihara

Shozo Yoshizawa

Akihito Dobashi

Hajime Saegusa

Kazuhito Shimura

An electrophotographic apparatus of this invention includes a stacking section for cut sheet; a stacking section for fanfold paper; a feed section for supplying printing paper which is cut sheet or fanfold paper from one of the stacking sections via one of different supplying paths; an exposure unit for forming an electrostatic latent image on a photosensitive drum; a developing unit for developing the latent image into a toner image; a belt conveyer for conveying the printing paper received from the feed section along common feeding path, a transferring unit for transferring the toner image on the photosensitive drum onto the printing paper; a fixing unit for fixing the transferred toner image on the printing paper; an ejecting section for receiving the printed printing paper from the belt conveyer; and a cutting device for cutting apart the printed fanfold paper at the perforation line thereof. The fanfold paper left behind on the common feeding path after the cutting operation is set back to a position which does not obstruct supply of cut paper in the feed section.

Electrophotographic apparatus capable of selectively using cut sheet and

An electrophotographic printer is provided with: a photosensitive drum; a feeding device which feeds a continuous recording sheet; a transfer device which transfers a toner image formed on the photosensitive surface of the drum onto the sheet; a cleaning device which removes residual developer from the photosensitive surface; and a photographic fixing device which fixes the toner image to the sheet. The feeding device includes an endless belt which is located on the downstream side of the drum with reference to the sheet-feeding direction and which travels in one direction. The feeding device also includes a charger which electrically charges the endless belt, so as to allow the sheet to be electrostatically attracted on the endless belt.

Electrophotographic printer

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Shiga, Japan

Eizo Kanaya