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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2023
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Jason D. Steadman, Rochester, NY (US);
Michael G. Shaughnessy, Hemlock, NY (US);
Carolyn Rae Ellinger, Rochester, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
An ink tray insert is adapted to be inserted into a conventional ink tray in a printing system. The ink tray insert includes a bottom surface having an outer profile that substantially conforms to an inner profile of a bottom surface of the conventional ink tray, and left and right side walls that extend upwards from left and right edges of the bottom surface, respectively. Bearing saddles are mounted on the left and right side walls adapted to receive bearings mounted on a shaft of a fountain roller, the ink tray insert being adapted to supply ink to the fountain roller in an ink transfer zone. A cross-track width of the ink tray insert between the left and right side walls is less than a cross-track width of the conventional ink tray.