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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 1994
Filed:
Jun. 08, 1993
Shyshung S Hwang, Penfield, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A xerographic printer or digital copier has an intermediate belt for transferring images from several photoreceptive drums to sheets of paper. The intermediate belt experiences undesired stretching and shrinking which results in the size of the transferred image being distorted and the colors of the transferred image being misregistered. The printer is provided with a plurality of drag inducing members preferably in the form of drag rollers or skid plates which minimize the stretching and shrinking of the intermediate belt by counteracting the belt distorting forces. The magnitude of the drag forces to be applied by each of the drag inducing members can be calculated and the position of each of the drag inducing members can be adjusted according to each of the calculated drag forces.