Device and method for fixing a toner image by solvent vapor while reducing the solvent drag-out

US7006783B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Oce Printing Systems GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Frank Keidel · Munich, DE
• Robert Lang · Atlanta, US
• Gerd Goldmann · Krefeld, DE
• Peter Segerer · Olching, DE
• Gunter Rosenstock · Ottobrunn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 7, 2003
• Grant date: Feb 28, 2006
• Expiry date: Jan 19, 2024

Classification

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

Abstract

In a device and method for fixing toner images on a carrier web, rinsing chambers from which a mixture of solvent vapor and air is drawn off are located before and after a fixing chamber. The mixture is passed through a condenser, the discharge of which is re-supplied to the rinsing chambers.