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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2000
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Suwon, KR;
Abstract
A pair of cleaning apparatuses for a liquid electrophotographic printer that can completely remove to residual toner from both a photo receptor belt and a transfer roller, respectively. Each cleaning apparatus is supplied with a liquid solvent used to dissolve toner remaining on the transfer roller and the photo receptor belt after a printing operation. Each of the pair of cleaning apparatuses can engage and disengage to and from the photo receptor belt and the transfer roller respectively upon user actuation or entry of a sheet of recording media into the electrophotographic printing apparatus. Each cleaning apparatus contains in rectangular felt material soaked with solvent positioned to mate with the surfaces of the photo receptor belt and the transfer roller.