an electrographic stylus recording apparatus producing a toner powder image on a receptor belt wherein non - imaging toner powder is collected at a cylindrical sleeve located downstream from the stylus array and is subsequently returned from the cylindrical sleeve to the upstream side of the stylus array by depositing toner powder from the cylindrical sleeve onto the receptor belt by adjustment of the toner powder on the cylindrical sleeve relative to the space between the cylindrical sleeve plus the application of a d . c . voltage to the cylindrical sleeve .