To provide a digital printer minimizing load of a liquid developer, having high process stability, and having high printing quality due to an invariable characteristic of the liquid developer.
A digital printer comprises print parts 11, 12, and the print part includes an electronic photographic station and a developing station 110 for coloring a charged image on a charged image carrier 101. The digital printer is provided with a supply device 300 which supplies liquid to the print part and receives used or unconsumed liquid from the print part. The supply device includes a first supply unit 301 common in all the print parts, each second supply unit 302 for each color supplying each color liquid developer to each color print part, and a second buffer vessel 320 for a liquid carrier. The second supply unit includes a first buffer vessel 316, the second buffer vessel 320 for the liquid carrier, and a mixture unit 314 connected to the buffer vessels for mixing the liquid developer.
OTTO FERBER
FRANZ KASTNER
ATTILA BOGDAN
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Takuya Kuno