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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2014
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);
Pau Martin Vidal, Barcelona, ES;
Alberto Arredondo, Barcelona, ES;
Eduardo Martin Orue, Barcelona, ES;
Alberto Borrego Lebrato, San Cugat del Valles, ES;
Ricardo Sanchis Estruch, Barcelona, ES;
Pau Martin Vidal, Barcelona, ES;
Alberto Arredondo, Barcelona, ES;
Eduardo Martin Orue, Barcelona, ES;
Alberto Borrego Lebrato, San Cugat del Valles, ES;
Ricardo Sanchis Estruch, Barcelona, ES;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US);
Abstract
A print media support assembly includes a print platen structure having a number of through holes for applying a vacuum from a bottom side to a surface of the print platen structure, and a number of sinkholes in the surface of the print platen structure, each sinkhole associated with at least one through hole for distributing a vacuum, applied via the through holes, across the surface of the print platen structure; the print platen structure supporting a print medium in a print zone; and at least one vacuum belt running across the surface of the print platen structure in a direction of print media advance, the belt overlapping with only part of the surface of the print platen structure to form at least one belt area and at least one non-belt area on the print platen structure; wherein at least one of the density and the size of the through holes and the distribution, the area and the shape of a footprint of the sinkholes is different between the belt area and the non-belt area.