Lexmark International, Inc.

Todd Joseph Svoboda

Ronald Lloyd Roe

Matthew Joe Russell

Bhaskar Gopalanarayanan

Gerald Lee Fish

Johnathan Lee Barnes

James Joseph Semler

Leea Danielle Haarz

Jeremy Lavern Daum

Sudha Chopra

Jeannette Quinn Bracken

The present disclosure relates to controlling a performance characteristic of an image forming device component having a surface which may include removal of a portion of the surface to expose a plurality of voids and a surface between the voids. The surface between the voids may have a surface roughness Ra in the range of 0.1 to 5.0 microns and the relationship SA/(SA+SA) is equal to 1-50%, where SAis the surface area of the voids and SAis the remaining surface area of the component. The performance characteristic may include the control of toner mass conveyed and/or toner filming and/or the amount of residual toner removed from a photoconductive surface.

Toner mass control by surface roughness and voids

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Winchester, KY, United States of America

Todd Joseph Svoboda