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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 11, 1998
Alexander Douglas Meade, Lexington, KY (US);
Michael Wesley Baskette, Lexington, KY (US);
David Clay Blaine, Lexington, KY (US);
Jeffrey Lynn Richie, Lexington, KY (US);
Philip Jerome Heink, Lexington, KY (US);
Michael Craig Leemhuis, Nicholasville, KY (US);
David Starling MacMillan, Winchester, KY (US);
Mark Stephen Weisman, Jr., Lexington, KY (US);
Bradley Leonard Beach, Lexington, KY (US);
Peter Eric Wallin, Lexington, KY (US);
Ronald Willard Baker, Versailles, KY (US);
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Abstract
An ink jet printer is provided comprising a housing, an ink jet printing apparatus and a coating apparatus. The ink jet printing apparatus is located within the housing and includes an ink jet printing device capable of ejecting ink droplets onto a first side of a printing substrate which moves through the housing along a printing substrate feed path. The coating apparatus is positioned along the printing substrate feed path and spaced from the printing device. The coating apparatus applies a substantially uniform layer of coating material onto at least a portion of the first side of the printing substrate.