Electrostatic reproduction process employing novel transfer paper

Claim 1

In the method of producing a visual image on a copy member comprising the steps of forming a latent electrostatic image on an electrostatically chargeable, photoconductive member by producing a patterned distribution of electrical charges thereon; applying to said photoconductive member a finely divided, pigmented toner which will adhere to those areas of the member where a charge is present; transferring said toner from said photoconductive member to an image receiving surface of an uncharged copy member made of paper; and heating the copy member to fuse the toner thereto in a high temperature environment in which the relative humidity ranges down to 10 percent or lower, the improvement wherein the toner is transferred to a copy member which is resistant to the build-up of static charges on its image receiving surface in the low humidity, high temperature environment in which the copy member is located while the toner is fused thereto and which comprises means for making said image receiving surface counteractive to the retention of static charges which are transferred with said toner particles to said image receiving surface and a web of cellulosic material, said means being an electrical conductivity imparting additive distributed on or in the web in an amount sufficient to reduce the surface resistivity of the image receiving surface to from not more than 3 × 10 11 ohms/square at a relative humidity of 25 percent up to not more than 60 × 10 11 ohms/square at a relative humidity of 10 percent to thereby facilitate the dissipation of static charges therefrom in said low humidity, high temperature environment and thereby keep said charges from remaining on said image receiving surface and creating a tendency for the copy member to stick to another charged copy member or to parts of the copy making apparatus.