Processor for imaging media
US7924300B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 7, 2006 |
| Grant date | Apr 12, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 31, 2029 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG03D13/002
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A thermal processor including an oven and a cooling section. The oven is configured to heat an imaging media to a development temperature. The cooling section is configured to cool the imaging media from the development temperature to a desired exit temperature as imaging media moves along a transport path from an entrance to an exit. The cooling section provides a varying rate of heat transfer from the imaging media along the transport path so as to create a varying cooling temperature gradient in the imaging media substantially equal to and not exceeding a varying maximum cooling temperature gradient of imaging media.
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