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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1998
Hidetoshi Hara, Otsu, JP;
Jun Inagaki, Otsu, JP;
Toray Industries, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electrographic printing apparatus and method obtain high-quality images without the occurrence of transfer nonuniformity when toner images are transferred from a latent image carrier to an intermediate transfer medium. The apparatus and method record a toner image present on the latent image carrier by transferring and fixing the toner image to a recording medium via the intermediate transfer medium having an elastic layer on a surface thereof. The printing apparatus has a tensile spring for pressing the intermediate transfer medium against the latent image carrier, and the pressing force of the tensile spring is set so that the straightness in the width direction on the surface of the elastic layer is not larger than the height of the toner image.