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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2006
David K. Ahl, Rochester, NY (US);
Douglas A. Mckeown, Geneseo, NY (US);
Robert A. Gross, Penfield, NY (US);
Michael G. Petranto, Webster, NY (US);
Youti Kuo, Penfield, NY (US);
Mark Stevens, Henrietta, NY (US);
David K. Ahl, Rochester, NY (US);
Douglas A. McKeown, Geneseo, NY (US);
Robert A. Gross, Penfield, NY (US);
Michael G. Petranto, Webster, NY (US);
Youti Kuo, Penfield, NY (US);
Mark Stevens, Henrietta, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
An electrophotographic printing apparatus includes a housing, a photoreceptor module located inside the housing that includes a photoreceptor, a raster output system located inside the housing for projecting an electrostatic image onto the photoreceptor, a charging station, a developer station, a transfer station, a pre-fuser transport, and a fusing station. The module may be removed from an operating position inside the housing. The transfer station is connected to the pre-fuser transport so that they are constrained to move as one unit when the photoreceptor module is in its operating position inside the housing but are disconnected when the photoreceptor module is removed from its operating position inside the housing. The transfer module may be mounted so as to be constrained by a pre-fuser transport.