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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2019
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Linn C. Hoover, Webster, NY (US);
Douglas K Herrmann, Webster, NY (US);
Paul J. McConville, Webster, NY (US);
Jason M. LeFevre, Penfield, NY (US);
Seemit Praharaj, Webster, NY (US);
David A. VanKouwenberg, Avon, NY (US);
Michael J. Levy, Webster, NY (US);
Chu-heng Liu, Penfield, NY (US);
Santokh S. Badesha, Pittsford, NY (US);
Christopher Mieney, Rochester, NY (US);
David S. Derleth, Webster, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
An inkjet printer includes a dryer configured to attenuate the effects of temperature differentials arising in substrates that are caused by holes in a media transport belt and a platen covering a vacuum plenum. The dryer includes a heater, a media transport belt cooler, and a media transport belt. The media transport belt is configured to move substrates past the heater after ink images have been formed on the substrates and the media transport belt cooler is positioned to remove heat energy from the media transport belt after the media transport belt has passed the heater and the substrates have separated from the media transport belt. The substrate cooler is configured to reduce a temperature of the media transport belt to a temperature that attenuates image defects arising from temperature differentials in the media transport belt when the media transport belt is opposite the heater.