G03G7/002

Colorless digital primer for digital printing

A colorless digital primer for digital printing includes a colorless paste. The colorless paste includes a non-polar carrier fluid, and a resin swollen in the non-polar carrier fluid. The resin is present in the paste in an amount ranging from about 20% (w/w) to about 50% (w/w). A solid polar compound is dispersed in the resin. The solid polar compound is selected from the group consisting of a cellulose microcrystalline powder, dextrin, maltose monohydrate, polyacrylic acid, polyvinyl alcohol, a styrene maleic anhydride copolymer, a bismaleimide oligomer, sucrose, sucrose octaacetate, sucrose benzoate, and combinations thereof. The solid polar compound is present in an amount up to 60 wt. % of solids in the colorless paste.

Electrostatic printing

There is provided a method for electrostatic printing comprising providing a print substrate having a layer comprising a polymeric material, the layer comprising a polymeric material having thereon a surface layer comprising an aminofunctional silane; carrying out an electrostatic printing process to transfer an ink onto the surface layer comprising the aminofunctional silane. Also disclosed herein are print substrates producible by the method, and print substrates for use in the method.

ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTORECEPTOR FOR CONTACT CHARGING WITH DC VOLTAGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

An electrophotographic photoreceptor for contact charging with a DC voltage, includes a conductive substrate, an undercoat layer provided on the conductive substrate, a charge generation layer provided on the undercoat layer, a charge transport layer provided on the charge generation layer, and a surface protective layer provided on the charge transport layer, in which the surface protective layer is a cured film of a composition containing a reactive charge transport material and contains a hydroxy group and a benzene ring structure, and a value of a peak area of the hydroxy group/a peak area of the benzene ring structure that are measured by an attenuated total reflection method of infrared spectroscopy, is greater than 0.05 and 0.36 or less.