Apparatuses useful in printing onto media and methods of mitigating media edge wear effects on fixing belts in printing

US8116671B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Xerox Corporation · US

Inventors

• Faming Li · Schroeppel, US
• Eric S. Hamby · Fairport, US
• Augusto E. Barton · Webster, US
• Steven M. Russel · New York, US
• Erwin Ruiz · Rochester, US
• Brendan H. Williamson · Rochester, US
• Paul M. Fromm · Rochester, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 1, 2010
• Grant date: Feb 14, 2012
• Expiry date: Sep 4, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03G2215/2032
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Apparatuses useful in printing and methods of mitigating media edge wear effects on fixing belts in printing are provided. An exemplary apparatus useful for printing onto media includes a first roll including a first surface; a second roll including a second surface; a fixing member including a third surface; a fixing belt supported on the first surface and second surface, the fixing belt including a surface forming a nip with the fixing member; a registration distribution system for translating the first roll, second roll, fixing member and fixing belt, as a unit, transversely with respect to a media travel path of media received at the nip; and a belt steering mechanism connected to the second roll for translating the fixing belt across the first surface of the first roll at the nip, transversely to the media travel path, while the registration distribution system translates the first roll, second roll, fixing member and fixing belt transversely to the media travel path.