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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2011
Bryan J. Roof, Newark, NY (US);
Anthony S. Condello, Webster, NY (US);
Bryan J. Roof, Newark, NY (US);
Anthony S. Condello, Webster, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A UV curable gel ink spreading method and system includes setting an ink re-flow drum temperature, jetting UV gel ink onto a substrate using a print head, heating a back side of the substrate to cause re-flow using the re-flow drum, and curing the UV gel ink image using a UV source to produce a cured image. At least one of drawback and line spread may be measured in-line to determine whether to modify a drum temperature, a UV source location, and/or a print process speed to optimize drawback and/or line spread. Acceptable or optimized temperatures and/or UV source locations may be saved as a set point that corresponds to a substrate type.