Device and method for fixing a toner image using a directed stream of solvent vapor

US6915101B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Océ Printing Systems GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Gerd Goldman · Munich, DE
• Frank Keidel · Munich, DE
• Peter Segerer · Olching, DE
• Gunter Rosenstock · Ottobrunn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 31, 2001
• Grant date: Jul 5, 2005
• Expiry date: Sep 4, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03G15/2096
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a vapor fixing device for an electrographic printer or copier, the heated vapor housing is provided such that vapor does not condense at the interior housing walls. A directed stream containing solvent vapor is produced which is directed at a section of the support material.