Electrophotographic apparatus and method for using textured receivers

US6608641B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• NexPress Solutions LLC · US

Inventors

• Peter S. Alexandrovich · Rochester, US
• Richard George Allen · Rochester, US
• Muhammed Aslam · Rochester, US
• Jiann-Hsing Chen · Fairport, US
• Diane M. Herrick · Rochester, US
• Robert A. Lancaster · Hilton, US
• Yee S. Ng · Fairport, US
• Joseph A. Pavlisko · Pittsford, US
• Hwai-Tzuu Tai · Rochester, US
• Thomas Nathaniel Tombs · Brockport, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 27, 2002
• Grant date: Aug 19, 2003
• Expiry date: Jun 27, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03G2215/0119
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A printer for printing color toner images on a receiver member of any of a variety of textures. The printer has a number of tandemly arranged electrophotographic image-forming modules respectively including a plurality of imaging subsystems to form a colored toner image transferred to a receiver member, the transfer of toner images from each of the modules forming a color print of the receiver member which is fused to form a desired color print. The image quality of the color print is produced by control of nonoperational co-optimization of fusing parameters and imaging subsystem parameters enabling printing on the variety of textures of receiver member.