[EPm] Electrophotographic Materials

[EPm-02] Analytical Technique and Application to Development of Organic Thin Film Lubricant in The Surface and Depth direction.

*Kenji Komito¹ (1. Ricoh)

During the cleaning process of electro-photography, there are some problems that a toner or an external additive adheres on photo receptor or slips and an abnormal image is generated. In the view from above, techniques for applying a lubricant on the photo receptor are known. There was a scene that it was difficult to confirm the correspondence with the problem at the design development because the analysis technology to the quantitative index of the application condition of the lubricant was insufficient. This report will introduce that a quantitative analysis method of lubricant application condition is established using some analyzers, and an example applied to actual design development problems.