The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 05, 1997
Thomas F. Szlucha, Fairport, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A printing machine for printing an image including colorants, including a liquid carrier, on a recording medium moving along a path through a pre-print zone and a print zone including a heat and hold drier. The printing machine includes a printhead, disposed adjacent the print zone, to deposit the colorants, including the liquid carrier, on the recording medium during movement through the print zone, a pre-print zone drier, disposed adjacent the pre-print zone, to generate a heat energy, towards the recording medium, sufficiently elevated for retention in the recording medium during movement thereof through the print zone. The pre-print zone drier includes the function of heat and hold where the pre-heat drier heats the recording medium sufficiently such that the mass of the recording media holds or stores the heat energy during printing in the print zone such that a drier is either not necessary at the print zone or the a drier generating less heat energy than the pre-heat drier is used to maintain the level of stored heat energy.