Xerox Corporation

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Palo Alto Research Center Inc.

Jorge Antonio Alvarez

Chu-Heng Liu

Paul J McConville

Seemit Praharaj

Michael F Zona

Robert Alan Clark

Douglas K Herrmann

William J Nowak

Jason Mathew LeFevre

Alan M Litman

Jason M LeFEVRE

Victoria F DeYoung

Santokh Singh Badesha

Anthony Salvatore Condello

Peter Paul

Gary Allen Denton

Francisco Zirilli

Cyril G Edmunds

David Joseph Gervasi

Palghat Srinivas Ramesh

Mandakini Kanungo

Bing R Hsieh

Michael Stephen Roetker

Varun Sambhy

Timothy D Stowe

Lin Ma

Gerald A Domoto

Peter John Knausdorf

Bryan James Roof

Jack T LeStrange

Augusto E Barton

Joseph C Sheflin

Martin Edward Hoover

Elias Panides

Steven C Hart

Nancy Y Jia

Charles Donahue Rizzolo

Jack Thomas Lestrange

Kyle B Tallman

David G Anderson

Mark C Petropoulos

Moritz Patrick Wagner

Nicholas P Kladias

Matthew Michael Kelly

Jason Matthew LeFevre

Charles H Tabb

Patrick Jun Howe

Stan Alan Spencer

Roger Derek Masham

Lawrence R Benedict

Gerardo Leute

David Charles Irving

Jennifer R Wagner

Clifford W Imes, Iv

Krzysztof J Less

Derek J Milton

Jason Lefevre

Michael B Thomson

Peter J M Bloemen

Jerome P Chasko

John M Wysocky

David Lalley

Gregory J Kott

Peter A Mayfield

Roderick A Cooley

Christine A Keenan

Ian Brailsford

Peter J McGuire

John W D Cooper

Yumeng Wu

Robert G Hall

Alexander C Bisland

Mary Alvarez

Gregory D Gerbasi

Douglas L Herrmann

Willam J Nowak

Mark C Petropoulos, Jr

David D Lalley

An inkjet printer includes a waste ink treatment system and a humidification chamber to separate waste ink produced by a printhead maintenance station into solid ink pigment particles and a solvent stream and use the solvent stream to maintain inkjets in the printheads of the inkjet printer in operational status. The waste ink treatment system mixes the waste ink with a metal salt to precipitate the solid ink pigment particles out of the waste ink. The solvent stream remaining after the precipitation of the pigment particles is humidified and directed to air baffles positioned on opposite sides of each printhead in every other printhead module in the process direction. A kit is provided to retroactively modify an existing inkjet printer to treat the waste ink and use the solvent stream to maintain the operational status of the inkjets in the printheads of the inkjet printer.

System and method for printing ink images in accordance with sustainability goals

Methods and systems for securely rendering a security feature with image data to be printed, can involve providing within the image data, data relating to a group of spots, and within the image data, mixing spots of two or more spot sizes among the group of spots to embed information within a stochastic or frequency modulation halftone image. In an embodiment, operations may be implemented for rendering a part of the image with a first spot among the group of spots and a remaining portion of the image with a second spot among the group of spots, wherein the second spot is smaller in size than the first spot.

Security printing using mixed spot sizes in stochastic or frequency modulated halftone images

An inkjet printer prints on a first side of a media sheet less than all of the color separations in an image, generates a first set of image data of the printed color separations to identify image features, returns the partially printed media sheet to a position that precedes the print zone in the printer, generates a second set of image data of the partially printed media sheet before it reenters the print zone to identify the image features, compares the positions of the image features in the first set of image data to the positions of the image features in the second set of image data to register one or more color separations remaining to be printed with the color separations printed on the first side of the media sheet, and prints the remaining registered color separations on the first side of the partially printed media sheet.

System and method for improving ink image quality in an inkjet printer

Disclosed is a system and method for cooling paper within a printer assembly that includes at least one misting assembly designed to mist an aqueous solution onto an unprinted surface of paper stock after a first side is printed. At least one convection accelerator assembly is designed to accelerate evaporation of the aqueous solution before the printed paper stock arrives at the at least one printing station for printing on the unprinted surface. At least one or more of a paper temperature, machine temperature, printhead temperature, and humidity sensor are operationally coupled to at least one controller assembly programmed to control at least one or more of misting, humidity, and airflow. The at least one controller assembly is designed to determine the heat to be dissipated into the airflow from the printed paper stock to obtain a targeted paper temperature and, therefore, the amount and placement of aqueous solution misted.

System and method for cooling paper within a printer assembly

A method of operating a printer identifies image areas and image features in ink image content data that are likely to produce ink blur within an ink image. The ink image content data for these areas and features is modified to attenuate the appearance of ink blur. The image areas identified as being likely to produce ink blur are the trailing edge and the side edges of the ink image content data. The modification of the ink image content data for the features and predetermined areas improves the quality of the printed ink image.

System and method for varying ejected ink drop volumes to improve ink image quality in an inkjet printer

A method of operating a printer identifies image areas in ink image content data that are likely to affected by airflow disturbances to produce ink blur within an ink image. Inkjets farthest from these areas are selected to eject ink drops into these areas to form portions of an ink image. The image areas identified as being likely to produce ink blur are the leading edge, trailing edge, and side edge of the ink image content data. The ink drops ejected by these selected inkjets and their satellites are less likely to be affected adversely by the airflow disturbances.

System and method for selecting inkjets to improve ink image quality in an inkjet printer

A method of operating a printer evaluates the effect of printing a print job with two different orientations of the image content data for the print job. The orientation that produces the least increase in the cross-process direction displacement error for the inkjets in the printer is selected for printing the print job. By attenuating the increase in cross-process direction displacement error, the interval between printhead maintenance operations is increased.

System and method for printing color images on substrates in an inkjet printer

A method of operating an inkjet printer identifies a thermal load that will be imposed on the printheads in the inkjet printer during execution of a print job and identifies a remedial action to reduce the thermal load if the thermal load increases the temperature of the printheads above an upper threshold of a predetermined temperature range. The thermal load is identified from the ink image content data for the print job, the print job parameters for the print job, and environmental condition measurements received from sensors in the printer. The remedial actions include manipulation of the print job queue, alteration of print job parameters, and active cooling to remove heat from the printheads or media within the printer.

System and method for feed forward control of printhead temperature in an inkjet printer to improve ink image quality

A multi-sheet cooling buffer suitable for use in a printing device and a method of sheet processing with the cooling buffer are described. The cooling buffer includes an inlet and an outlet and a sheet cooling mechanism. An array of cooling stations, intermediate the inlet and the outlet, are each configured to receive print media sheets independently from the inlet and direct cooled sheets towards the outlet. In the cooling buffer, multiple print media sheets are able to be cooled contemporaneously in respective ones of the cooling stations.

Sheet cooling system for a printing device

The present disclosure is directed to a multilayer imaging blanket for a variable data lithography printing system, including: a multilayer base having a lower contacting surface configured to wrap around or to be mounted on a cylinder core of the variable data lithography printing system; and a platinum catalyzed fluorosilicone surface layer opposite the lower contacting surface; wherein the multilayer base is a sulfur-free carcass including: a top layer including a sulfur-free rubber substrate such as an ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) rubber substrate, a bottom layer including the lower contacting surface; and a compressible layer disposed between the top layer and the bottom layer, the compressible layer being attached to a surface of the top layer opposite the platinum catalyzed fluorosilicone surface layer and a surface of the bottom layer opposite the lower contacting surface, optionally the top layer further comprises a reinforcing fabric layer, the reinforcing fabric layer attached to a surface of the compressible layer opposite the bottom layer.

Multi-layer imaging blanket

A three-dimensional (3-D) printer includes build and support material development stations positioned to transfer layers of build and support materials to an intermediate transfer surface. The intermediate transfer surface transfers a layer of the build and support materials to a platen each time the platen contacts the intermediate transfer surface. A sensor detects the thickness of the layer on the platen, and a mechanical planer is positioned to contact and level the layer on the platen as the platen moves past the mechanical planer. Additionally, a feedback loop is electrically connected to the sensor and the mechanical planer. The mechanical planer adjusts the amount of the build material and the support material removed from the layer based on the thickness of the layer on the platen, as determined by the sensor.

Electrostatic 3-D printer using layer and mechanical planer

A 3-D printer includes build and support material development stations that electrostatically transfer build material and support material to an ITB. The ITB transfers a layer of build and support material to a platen each time the platen contacts one of the layers on the ITB, to successively form a freestanding stack of the layers on the platen. A sensor is positioned to generate a topographic measurement of the layer on the platen, and an aerosol applicator is positioned to propel build and support material on to the layer on the platen. The aerosol applicator controls the build and support material being propelled, based on the topographic measurement from the sensor through a feedback loop, to adjust the amount and location of the build material and the support material propelled on to the layer, and thereby control the flatness of surface topology of the layers in the freestanding stack on the platen.

Electrostatic 3-D printer controlling layer topography using aerosol applicator

3-D printers include an intermediate transfer surface that transfers a layer of material to a platen each time the platen contacts the intermediate transfer surface to successively form a freestanding stack of layers of the material on the platen. A sensor detects the thickness of the layer on the platen after a fusing station fuses the layer. A feedback loop is electrically connected to the sensor and a development station (that includes a photoreceptor, a charging station providing a static charge to the photoreceptor, a laser device exposing the photoreceptor, and a development device supplying the material to the photoreceptor). The development station adjusts the development bias of the development device, based on a layer thickness measurement from the sensor through the feedback loop, to control the thickness of subsequent ones of the layers transferred from the intermediate transfer surface to the freestanding stack on the platen.

Electrostatic 3-D printer controlling layer thickness using feedback loop to development device

A system and method are provided for implementing a unique electrophotographic layered manufacturing scheme for creating higher fidelity electrophotographic composite laminate layers using tri-level electrophotography or electrostatic imaging scheme as a process for rendering individual laminate layers to be built up to form and/or manufacture three-dimensional objects, parts and components as 3D objects. A multi-stage 3D object forming scheme is described involving steps of multi-component laminate forming in a particularized electrophotographic layer forming process. This process renders a part component and a support component precisely next to one another with a single exposure by an exposing device to form a latent image of variable discharge voltages. Multiple toner product sources are used to dispose part component toner and support component toner in the forming of the multi-component laminate layer.

Systems and methods for implementing electrophotographic layered manufacturing of three dimensional (3D) objects, parts and components using tri-level electrophotography

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Webster, NY, United States of America

Jorge Antonio Alvarez