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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2011
Erwin Ruiz, Rochester, NY (US);
Augusto E. Barton, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rebecca M. Hainley, Portland, OR (US);
Erwin Ruiz, Rochester, NY (US);
Augusto E. Barton, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rebecca M. Hainley, Portland, OR (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
According to aspects of the embodiments, there is provided apparatus and methods of improving the self-stripping capabilities of a printing system employing a belt roll fuser structure. An exemplary embodiment apparatus comprises a pressure roll; a fuser belt; a nip formed by the fuser belt contacting the pressure roll, the nip including an inlet end where a medium enters the nip, an outlet end where the medium exits the nip, and a first nip width defined between the inlet end and the outlet end; and a striping shoe coupled to a controller that uses a lookup table to incrementally move the stripping shoe to some defined optimum position to compensate for at least one of belt degradation, media weight, and media coating to gain stripping latitude.