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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2024
Canon Production Printing Holding B.v., Venlo, NL;
Rudolf Bosch, Venlo, NL;
Albert G. M. Van Welie, Venlo, NL;
CANON PRODUCTION PRINTING HOLDING B.V., Venlo, NL;
Abstract
A method for shutting down a printer that includes an endless cleaning member and an endless image transfer member includes a step of cooling down the printer by allowing the cleaning member and the cleaning zone to cool down to a predetermined cooling temperature, the predetermined cooling temperature being a temperature lower than the elevated temperature; and during cooling down of the cleaning member and the transfer zone to the predetermined cooling temperature, continuing the surface of the cleaning member being in moving contact with the surface of the image transfer member in the cleaning zone.