Abstract In an electrophotographic process in which the electrostatic latent image on a photosensitive plate is developed by a liquid developer and the resulting toner image is transferred to a copying material, an electric field is applied to the liquid developer squeezing means in order to prevent the disturbance of the toner image caused by the flow of toner particles in a carrier pool formed at the squeezing site. The electric field is applied in such a direction that toner particles are attracted to the photosensitive plate before transferring the toner particles to the copying material and/or toner particles are attracted to the copying material after transferring the toner particles to the copy material.
An electrophotographic process for reproducing an original image on copying material comprising the steps of forming an electrostatic latent image of said original image on an electrophotographic photosensitive member, developing said electrostatic latent image with a liquid developer containing a liquid carrier and charged toner to form a toner image on said photosensitive member, contacting said toner image with said copying material and squeezing said photosensitive member and said copying material to remove excessive amounts of liquid carrier while applying an electric field which adheres said charged toner to the surface of said photosensitive member, and, thereafter, transferring said toner image to said copying material by contacting said copying material with said photosensitive member while applying an electric field which attracts the toner image to the surface of said copying material.