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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 1996
Filed:
Jul. 27, 1994
Feraydoon S Jamzadeh, Fairport, NY (US);
James R Flick, Rochester, NY (US);
David J Reed, Rochester, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus is particularly usable with a relatively stiff receiving sheet. In one embodiment, it includes a transfer member around which the receiving sheet is attached. To maintain good contact between the receiving sheet and the transfer member, a pair of rollers are positioned to engage the receiving sheet in non-imaged margins to hold it intimately to the transfer member. The sheet may also be engaged at other positions in its path in the non-imaged margins to control its movement. In another embodiment, corona applied to the sheet before separation from the transfer member is specially biased to discourage premature or excessive separation because of the stiffness of the sheet. The bias can be then changed to encourage separation if a more flexible receiving sheet is used.