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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2013
Filed:
May. 02, 2012
W. Charles Kasiske, Jr., Webster, NY (US);
John Leonard Hryhorenko, Webster, NY (US);
Timothy John Hawryschuk, Miamisburg, OH (US);
Alan Earl Rapkin, Pittsford, NY (US);
Andrew Ciaschi, Pittsford, NY (US);
W. Charles Kasiske, Jr., Webster, NY (US);
John Leonard Hryhorenko, Webster, NY (US);
Timothy John Hawryschuk, Miamisburg, OH (US);
Alan Earl Rapkin, Pittsford, NY (US);
Andrew Ciaschi, Pittsford, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
Inkjet printing systems are provided. One inkjet printing system has a plurality of inkjet printheads, each having nozzles for jetting ink droplets having a vaporizable carrier fluid, a support structure to which the plurality of inkjet printheads are mounted, such that a face of each of the printheads of the plurality of printheads is positioned to jet the ink droplets toward a target area through which a receiver transport system moves a receiver during printing; and a shield between the support structure and the target area creating a first region between the shield and the target area with the shield having at least one opening through the shield through which the nozzles of the printhead can jet the ink droplets to the target area. An energy source supplies energy to cause the temperature of the shield to rise above a condensation temperature of vaporized carrier fluid in the second region.