Imaging method

Claim 1

In a method of imaging an electro-optic device of the type having two electrodes sandwiching a photoconductive layer in contact with a liquid crystalline layer wherein the liquid crystalline layer is capable of undergoing an optical property change in response to a threshold voltage across the liquid crystal layer upon exposure of the photoconductor to active radiation and wherein upon substantially instantaneous application or removal of a desired voltage magnitude between the two electrodes the voltage division between the photoconductive layer and the liquid crystalline layer is such that the voltage magnitude across the liquid crystalline layer transitorily exceeds the threshold voltage magnitude required across the liquid crystalline layer for optical property change in the liquid crystalline layer, the improvement for reducing change of optical property in the liquid crystalline layer prior to exposure of the photoconductive layer comprising the step of applying the voltage magnitude between the two electrodes over a voltage magnitude rise time sufficient to maintain the voltage across the liquid crystalline layer at a magnitude below the threshold voltage required across the liquid crystalline layer for optical property change.