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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2002
Terrence L. Fisher, Rochester, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of equalizing web-stretching caused by web tensioning in a dye transfer printer that is for use with a donor web having a dye transfer area and opposite edge areas alongside the dye transfer area, includes the steps of heating a dye transfer area to effect a dye transfer from the dye transfer area to a dye receiver, and heating the edge areas alongside the dye transfer area less than the dye transfer area is heated to effect the dye transfer, but sufficiently so that the edge areas may be stretched by tension substantially the same as the dye transfer area may be stretched. If the edge areas alongside a dye transfer area being used in the printer are stretched substantially the same as the dye transfer area, the likelihood of any creases being created in the next unused transfer area is substantially reduced. Thus, no line artifacts will be printed on a dye receiver in the printer.