Xerox Corporation

Paul D Norder

Jagdish C Tandon

Ying-wei Lin

Anthony F Calarco

Sudarshan S Bains

Malcolm W Sikes, Jr

Jeffery L Sisson

A scanner-printer of the type that scans and prints in blocks, each block consisting of a preset number of image lines, in which the block of lines scanned by the scanning array is larger than the block of lines printed by a printing array so that there is provided additional image scan lines before and after each block of image lines printed, the additional image scan lines providing image context data for use in processing image signals adjacent the boundaries between blocks of image lines.

Scanner with slow scan image context processing

An improved pressure heated fusing apparatus for a copier/duplicator machine capable of simplex and duplex operation wherein the copy sheets make two passes through processing stations including a first roll which is heated to a temperature sufficient to fuse toner images onto paper support sheet material and a second roll made of an elastic material arranged axially parallel with said first roll to define a nip through which the paper support sheet material bearing toner images is passed having a longitudinal cross-sectional shape with a maximum diameter at the ends and a minimum diameter at the center.

Flared fuser roll

Growing community of inventors

Rochester, NY, United States of America

Paul D Norder