Remember the line "Charlie Can Walk Dance & Talk French". The first letters are in the order of the 6 steps.1. Cleaning: Excess toner is scraped from the photoelectric drum.2. Conditioning: A uniform -600 volt charge is placed on the photoelectric drum by the primary corona.3. Writing: Laser diodes write an invisible electric image on the photoelectric drum by causing the drum surfaceto be less negative wherever the laser beam hits.4. Developing: This is where the transfer roller places the toner on the drum. The toner sticks to the areas thathave had the electric charge lessened due to the laser beam.5. Transfer: The secondary corona uses a positive charge to attract the toner from the drum to the paper. Thepaper gets charged by corona too.6. Fusing: The toner is then melted into the paper.1.CleaningDuring the first stage of the image formation process, a photosensitive drum's surface is prepared to hold animage through a physical and electrical cleaning process. Before a new image is formed on the drum, leftovertoner from the previous image must be removed. This is accomplished by a rubber-cleaning blade which scrapestoner off the drum into a debris cavity. The drum is also electrostatically cleaned by erase lamps which illuminatethe drum's photosensitive material to neutralize any electrical charges that remain on the drum.2. ConditioningAfter the photosensitive drum has been physically and electrically cleaned, it must be conditioned. Theconditioning process consists of the application of a uniform negative charge on the surface of the photosensitivedrum by the primary corona wire. A high negative voltage is applied to the primary corona wire by the highvoltage power supply. Negative charges from the wire migrate to the surface of the drum. The primary coronagrid is positioned between the primary corona and the drum's surface to regulate the voltage applied to the drumso that a uniform negative charge is applied.3. WritingAfter rotating past the conditioning station, the drum has a uniform high negative charge on its surface. At thewriting station, a sweeping laser beam is used to discharge this potential in selected areas by focusing laser lighton selected portions of the photosensitive drum. This creates what is known as an electrostatic image. This imageis later developed into a visible image. Portions of the drum not exposed to the laser still have a high negativecharge.4. DevelopingAt the developing station, the invisible electrostatic image is developed into a visible image on the photosensitivedrum when toner from a developer cylinder is transferred to discharged areas on the drum. The toner particlesacquire a negative charge from the developer cylinder which is connected a negative DC power supply. Thiselectrostatic charge causes the toner particles to be attracted to the areas of the drum which have been exposedto the laser light and repelled to the areas not exposed. An AC potential is applied to the developer cylinder toassist the attraction of the toner from the developer cylinder to the photosensitive drum.5. TransferAt the transfer station, the toner image on the photosensitive drum is transferred to the paper. A corona wire ispositioned behind the paper so that the paper, which is traveling the same speed as the drum's surface isrotating, contacts the drum. This corona produces a positive charge on the paper. Because the positive chargeson the paper are stronger, they pull the negatively charged toner particles off the drum and on to the paper. Asthe paper and drum advance, a row of metal teeth with a high negative charge called the static charge eliminatorweakens the attractive force between the negatively charged drum and the positively charged paper. This helpsseparate the photosensitive drum and paper.6. Fusing