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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 19, 1997
Damodar M Pai, Fairport, NY (US);
John F Yanus, Webster, NY (US);
Timothy J Fuller, Pittsford, NY (US);
Merlin E Scharfe, Penfield, NY (US);
Paul J DeFeo, Sodus Point, NY (US);
Markus R Silvestri, Fairport, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A flexible electrophotographic imaging member including a supporting substrate coated with at least one imaging layer comprising charge transport material free of long chain alkyl carboxylate groups and a small amount of a different second hole transporting material containing at least two long chain alkyl carboxylate groups dissolved or molecularly dispersed in a film forming binder and coated from a mixture of solvents containing low boiling component and a small concentration of high boiling solvent. Preferably, the flexible electrophotographic imaging member is free of an anticurl backing layer, the imaging member comprising a supporting substrate uncoated on one side and coated on the opposite side with at least a charge generating layer and a charge transport layer containing comprising a first charge transport material and a small amount of a different second hole transporting material containing at least two long chain alkyl carboxylate groups dissolved or molecularly dispersed in a film forming binder and coated from a mixture of solvents containing low boiling component and a small concentration of high boiling solvent.