Process and device for supplying substrates in a printing unit

US7212780B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY · US

Inventors

• Uwe Weinlich · Monsheim, DE
• Eckhard Bauer · Kiel, DE
• Jorg Leyser · Kiel, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 10, 2003
• Grant date: May 1, 2007
• Expiry date: Dec 20, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H2801/15
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Preparing substrates for one-sided or two-sided printing in an electrophotograpically operated digital printing apparatus, in which process substrates are fed out of a supply unit or several supply units onto a conveyor operation sequence and are transferred, preferably in the course of the conveyor operation sequence, onto a conveyor belt that runs through a printing unit, with the least possible space between successive substrates. An acceleration time related to the type of substrate stock, of which the substrate is composed, is selected for feeding a substrate from a supply unit or from the supply unit.