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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2008
Joseph Herman Lang, Webster, NY (US);
Joseph Herman Lang, Webster, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A coating system comprises a high gloss coating ink supply source, and a low gloss coating ink supply source. The system includes a coating module configured to receive the high gloss coating ink and the low gloss coating ink. The coating module includes a first group of nozzles configured to emit the high gloss coating ink, and a second group of nozzles configured to emit the low gloss coating ink. The coating module includes a mixing reservoir configured to receive the high gloss coating ink and the low gloss coating ink and to commingle the high gloss coating ink and the low gloss coating ink to form an intermediate gloss coating ink. The coating module includes a third group of inkjet nozzles configured to emit the intermediate gloss coating ink.