Method for controlling a printer or copier using a toner mark band and reflex sensor working according to the triangulation principle

US7260334B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Oce Printing Systems GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Hans Winter · Gelnhausen, DE
• Volkhard Maess · Erding, DE
• Heinrich Lay · Töging, DE
• Rüdiger Hauns · Borgo San Lazzaro, DE
• Arno Best · Hanstedt, DE
• Michael Mayr · Brackenheim, DE
• Ulrich Bäumler · Poing, DE
• Thomas Schimidt-Behounek · Ebersberg, DE
• Wolfgang Schullerus · Bad Feilnbach, DE
• Josef Schreieder · Malgersdorf, DE
• Uwe Höllig · Birkenfeld, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 31, 2002
• Grant date: Aug 21, 2007
• Expiry date: Nov 18, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03G2215/00059
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method and device controls a printer or copier to generate a plurality of marks that are assembled into a coherent marking band that is then inked by the toner. A sensor measures the marking band. The printer or copier are controlled based on the output of the sensor.