Xerox Corporation

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Roger Gaylord Leighton

Gerald A Domoto

Andrew Wayne Hays

Elias Panides

Narayan V Deshpande

S Warren Lohr

Thomas N Taylor

John J Meyers

A dryer assembly for drying a liquid ink image formed on a substrate comprising a housing defining a portion of a sheet moving path; a plenum positioned within the housing, the plenum including air flow and outlet means contiguous to the plenum permitting forced air to exit the plenum, the outlet being in the form of a plurality of moving openings adapted to direct flowing air through the openings to the liquid image, the openings moving relative to the image; and a substrate transport device for moving the substrate carrying the liquid ink image on a front side thereof through the housing and under the plurality of moving openings. The dryer assembly has particular use in an ink jet printing system.

Moving air jet image conditioner for liquid ink

A dryer uses a two-phase drying system having a brief water condensation interval, followed by impinging parallel laminar recirculating hot air jets which impinge on wet ink to increase the copy rate of inkjet printing and to increase the quality of the printed image.

Hot air impingement drying system for inkjet images

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

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