Coating apparatus for use in an ink jet printer

US6183079A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Lexmark International, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Alexander D. Meade · Lexington, US
• Michael Wesley Baskette · Lexington, US
• David Clay Blaine · Lexington, US
• Jeffrey Lynn Richie · Lexington, US
• Philip Jerome Heink · Lexington, US
• Michael Craig Leemhuis · Nicholasville, US
• David Starling MacMillan · Winchester, US
• Mark Stephen Weisman, Jr. · Huntington, US
• Bradley Beach · Lexington, US
• Peter Wallin · Kalmar, SE
• Ronald Willard Baker · Versailles, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 11, 1998
• Grant date: Feb 6, 2001
• Expiry date: Jun 11, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B41J2/01
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An ink jet printer is provided comprising a housing, an ink jet printing apparatus and a coating apparatus. The ink jet printing apparatus is located within the housing and includes an ink jet printing device capable of ejecting ink droplets onto a first side of a printing substrate which moves through the housing along a printing substrate feed path. The coating apparatus is positioned along the printing substrate feed path and spaced from the printing device. The coating apparatus applies a substantially uniform layer of coating material onto at least a portion of the first side of the printing substrate.