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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 30, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Baskar Parthasarathy, Singapore, SG;
Sathiyamoorthy T Sivanandam, Singapore, SG;
Danny Lian Ng, Singapore, SG;
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
101417 ; 101419 ; 271189 ; 347102 ;
Abstract
A printer having a system to manage the output path of wet printed media is disclosed. In such a system, the wet printed media are held for a time before being ejected into an output tray to avoid the smearing of the wet print markings made on the media. The system achieves this holding time by causing the wet printed media to travel an additional distance over movable ramps before being ejected. In addition, the movements of the ramps are synchronized with the various operations in the printing cycle of the printer.