Xerox Corporation

Richard A Kalb

Patrick Jun Howe

James J Spence

Ali Rafic Dergham

Glenn David Batchelor

Todd Kenneth Preston

Timothy Patrick Foley

Douglas Allen Gutberlet

Chu-Heng Liu

Paul J McConville

Douglas K Herrmann

Jason Mathew LeFevre

Anthony Salvatore Condello

Seemit Praharaj

Palghat Srinivas Ramesh

Peter John Knausdorf

Joseph C Sheflin

John Patrick Baker

Brian M Balthasar

Robert Jian Zhang

Robert A Pictor

Megan Zielenski

Emmett James Spence

Linn C Hoover

Erwin Ruiz

Jack T LeStrange

Michael John Martin

Carlos Manuel Terrero

Jack Thomas Lestrange

Richard P Ficarra

Rachel Lynn Tanchak

Wayne D Drinkwater

Victoria Lynn Warner

Kareem N Tawil

A printing system comprises a print fluid deposition assembly, a media transport device, and an air flow control system. The print fluid deposition assembly comprises a carrier plate and a printhead arranged to eject a print fluid through an opening of the carrier plate to a deposition region. The media transport device holds a print medium against the movable support surface by vacuum suction and transports the print medium through the deposition region. The air flow control system comprises an air supply unit comprising air flow guide structure extending into the opening of the carrier plate between the carrier plate and the printhead to flow air through the opening. The air flow control system controls the air supply unit to selectively flow the air based on a location of a print medium relative to the printhead.

Devices, systems, and methods for supplying makeup air through openings in carrier plates of printing systems via air guide structures extending into the openings

A printing system comprises a print fluid deposition assembly, a media transport device, and an air flow control system. The print fluid deposition assembly comprises a carrier plate and a printhead arranged to eject a print fluid through an opening of the carrier plate to a deposition region. The media transport device comprises a movable support surface to transport a print medium along a process direction through the deposition region, the media transport device holding the print medium against the movable support surface by vacuum suction. The air flow control system is arranged to selectively flow air through the opening of the carrier plate between the carrier plate and the printhead based on a location of a print medium transported by the media transport device relative to the printhead.

Devices, systems, and methods for supplying makeup air through openings in carrier plates of printing system

An MFD is disclosed. For example, the MFD includes a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a plurality of instructions. The instructions when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform operations that include receiving an email, determining that a user wants to establish a connection based on the email, generating a reply email to the user, wherein the reply email includes an executable file that automatically configures an endpoint device of the user to establish the connection, transmitting the reply email to the user, and establishing the connection to the endpoint device of the user in response to execution of the executable file by the endpoint device of the user.

Method and apparatus to connect to network multi-function devices via email

Inkjet printhead cleaning methods and systems control an articulation structure (that is connected to a wiper blade) to move the wiper blade to contact an inkjet printhead to wipe the inkjet printhead. These methods/systems further control the articulation structure to move the wiper blade to contact a blade cleaning structure to clean the wiper blade. The blade cleaning structure comprises a fluid manifold and bundles of fibers mounted in brush openings of the fluid manifold, and cleaning fluid is in the fluid manifold. The mounting ends of the bundles of fibers are mounted in the brush openings of the fluid manifold and the cleaning ends of the bundles of fibers are positioned to contact the wiper blade. The blade cleaning structure is positioned so as to gravity feed the cleaning fluid from the mounting ends of the fibers to the cleaning ends of the fibers.

Inkjet printhead wiper cleaning system having cleaning fluid supplied brush

A capping station is configured for storing a printhead during printer inactivity to restore and preserve the operational status of the nozzles in the printhead. Each capping station has a receptacle having at least one wall and a floor configured to enclose a volume partially, and a sealing member mounted to an upper surface of the at least one wall of the receptacle so the sealing member extends away from the upper surface of the at least one wall. The sealing member has a surface that slopes toward the volume within the receptacle to direct fluid on the sloping surface of the sealing member into the volume within the receptacle.

Printhead cap for attenuating the drying of ink from a printhead during periods of printer inactivity

Exemplary printing apparatuses include, among other components, a printhead structure that includes nozzles adapted to eject liquid ink, a carriage assembly having positioning structures, and one or more printhead caps or cups within the carriage assembly. The carriage assembly is shaped to latch to the printhead structure. The printhead includes corresponding structures and the positioning structures engage with the corresponding structures when the carriage assembly is latched to the printhead structure. Also, the printhead caps are positioned within the carriage assembly so as to cover the nozzles when the carriage assembly is connected to the printhead structure.

Inkjet printhead cap having latching system

A maintenance cart is configured so the maintenance units within the cart can be selectively moved to correspond to a scalable printhead array. The maintenance cart includes a body configured to selectively move along a path to the printhead array, the body having a recess; and a plurality of cleaning modules mounted within the recess, the plurality of cleaning modules being adjustably arranged within the recess to correspond to a plurality of printheads of the printhead array to enable each cleaning module in the plurality of cleaning modules to align with a corresponding printhead of the printhead array in response to the body being moved to the printhead array.

Scalable printhead maintenance cart having maintenance modules

Systems and methods of a multiple dispensing system may include an image carrier, and may include a plurality of substantially aligned developing units positioned to develop image information on the image carrier. Each developing unit may include only one ink container and only one developer housing. The systems and method may also include a first dispensing system positioned upstream in a sheet feed direction of the plurality of substantially aligned developing units. The first dispensing system may include a first ink container and a first developer housing. The first developer housing may be configured to receive first imaging media from the first ink container and second imaging media from at least one other ink supply source.

Multiple imaging media dispensing systems and methods

A transportable device, such as a cart, for transporting and elevating an imaging media cartridge into a press printer may include a base platform, first and second elevation members disposed thereon, a panel disposed between the first and second elevation members, and first and second elevator platforms. The panel may include a pair of opposite vertical faces along which the elevator platforms slide to mutually exchange elevations by vertically sliding the platforms in opposite directions. The device may be used for a method of transporting and elevating an imaging media cartridge into a press printer at an installation height above a floor. Additionally, the device may be used for a method of removing and storing an imaging media cartridge from a press printer at an installation height above the floor.

Cart for loading, transporting and storing an imaging media cartridge

A printing system that receives an imaging media cartridge includes a rail and a dock to install the imaging media cartridge. The imaging media cartridge includes a housing that has pivots along an alignment axis substantially parallel to the rail. The imaging media cartridge further includes a roller that slides along the rail, the roller being disposed on the housing. The imaging media cartridge also includes a bracket disposed on the housing. To insert the bracket into the dock, the housing rotates on the pivots. To further adjust the position of the imaging media cartridge in the xerographic system, the housing rotates along at least one axis substantially orthogonal to the alignment axis. The rail includes a support beam and a flange. The roller includes at least a pair of wheel housings, each wheel housing having a pair of tandem wheels that glide along the rail. The tandem wheels face each other and glide along the flange and between the support beam. The imaging media cartridge includes a pair of magazines that contains the pivots, with the pair of magazines being disposed in the pair of wheel housings. The bracket includes at least one wheel to glide into the dock.

Methods and systems for mounting an imaging media cartridge to a printer

A trickle collection system including a trickle port formed in a developer housing and communicating with the interior of the developer housing, and a trickle port housing communicating the trickle port with an external vacuum collection source. The trickle port may include an aperture having a variable cross-section, for controlling an amount of flow of trickle through the trickle port. The trickle collection system also may include an air infusion port communicating the interior of the trickle port housing with external air and providing infusion of an amount of external air into the trickle port housing sufficient to facilitate flow of trickle from the trickle port to the external vacuum collection system. An aperture of the air infusion port may be variable, such that the amount of air infusion may be varied in accordance with internal and/or external conditions. The trickle collection system further may include a toner emission manifold disposed below the developer housing, where the toner emission manifold includes a toner collection port that collects toner adjacent a developer transfer region of the developer housing, and where the trickle port housing communicates with the toner emission manifold at a location remote from the developer transfer region. The trickle collection system may include the vacuum collection system and/or the toner emission manifold. An electrophotographic system of the present disclosure includes a developer housing, a vacuum collection source, and a trickle collection system including a trickle port and a trickle port housing, where the trickle port communicates the interior of the developer housing with the trickle port housing, and the trickle port housing communicates the trickle port with the vacuum collection source.

Trickle collection system and method, and electrophotographic system using the same

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Richard A Kalb