Prevention of excess liquid toner contamination in the formation of electrophotographic images

摘要

In a device and a method for substantially eliminating edge effects in a liquid toner electrophotography apparatus, having a photoconductor means (326) and an excess toner removing means (328, 329, 330) adapted to remove excess toner from an image formed on said photoconductor means (326), an air dam is formed at each end of a nip formed between said photoconductor means (326) and said excess toner removing means (328, 329, 330) to overcome hydrodynamic force of excess toner being squeezed from each end of said nip.