latent

It is during the developing phase of the laser printing process that toner is applied to the latent image on the drum. The toner is a negatively charged mixture of plastic and metal particles.

Developing Phase

Latent imaging refers mostly to photography, and is the process of light hitting a photosensitive material like film. Mitchells paper, published in 1957 has to do with crystallization of the atoms as the imaging progresses.

A. Hoffman has written:

'Thermodynamic Theory of Latent Image Formation (Progress Reports in Imaging Science & Technology)'

'The Golfer's Catalog'