Patent 7771909 was granted and assigned to Xerox on August, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A photoconductor that includes a photogenerating layer, and at least one charge transport layer where the photogenerating layer contains a titanyl phthalocyanine prepared, for example, by dissolving a Type I titanyl phthalocyanine in a solution comprising a trihaloacetic acid and an alkylene halide; adding the resulting mixture of the dissolved Type I titanyl phthalocyanine to a solution of an alcohol and an alkylene halide thereby precipitating a Type Y titanyl phthalocyanine; and treating the Type Y titanyl phthalocyanine with a monohalobenzene, and wherein the photogenerating layer is prepared from a dispersion of the titanyl phthalocyanine Type V and a chlorinated solvent of at least one of a dichloroethane and a dichloropropane.