System, apparatus, and method for printing large format media and targeted decurling of various printing processes

US11221579B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Xerox Corporation · US

Inventors

• Eliud Robles Flores · Rochester, US
• James A. Spence · Honeoye Falls, US
• William G. Osbourne · Webster, US
• Dragana Pavlovic · Rochester, US
• Michael J. Martin · Saxby, AU
• David C. Craig · Pittsford, US
• Roberto A. Irizarry · Rochester, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 5, 2018
• Grant date: Jan 11, 2022
• Expiry date: Feb 24, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03G15/6576
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A printer for producing a print media moving in a process direction including a print engine, a fuser, a full width array and a duplexing path. The print engine is operatively arranged to receive the print media and to apply a first dry marking material to a first surface of the print media. The fuser is arranged subsequently to the print engine in the process direction and is operatively arranged to receive the print media with the first dry marking material applied to the first surface of the print media and to fix the first dry marking material on the first surface using at least one of heat and pressure. The full width array is arranged subsequently to the fuser and is operatively arranged to obtain a first image of the first surface of the print media, the first image being used to quantify a flatness of the print media and/or image quality of the first image. The duplexing path is arranged subsequently to the full width array.