Acid sensitized charge transfer complexes and cyclic electrostatographic imaging

Claim 1

A cyclic electrostatographic imaging method comprising: a. providing an imaging member having a photoconductive imaging layer containing an organic photoconductive material, an activator capable of formation of a charge transfer complex with said material and from about 0.01 to less than about 0.1 weight percent of an organic protonic acid having an aqueous dissociation constant of 10 - 4 or greater; b. forming a latent electrostatic image on the surface of said imaging layer by first charging said surface followed by exposing said surface to a light and shadow image, the extent of exposure being sufficient to generate nonpersistent photocurrents in the irradiated areas of said layer without any substantial corresponding generation of persistent photocurrents in these same irradiated areas; c. rendering said latent image visible by development with finely divided toner particles; d. removing at least a portion of at least any residual developed image from said imaging surface; and e. repeating steps a-d in sequence at least one additional time.