Electrophotography – Document handling – Copy
Reexamination Certificate
2008-03-26
2011-11-22
Beatty, Robert (Department: 2852)
Electrophotography
Document handling
Copy
C399S045000, C399S069000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08064816
ABSTRACT:
A printer is provided, including a substrate transport apparatus for moving substrates along a substrate path; a media sensor actuated by mid-width and full substrates but not by narrow width substrates; and a fuser assembly including a belt, a heater to heat the belt, a backup member to engage the belt so as to define a fusing nip with the belt, and a temperature sensor for sensing a temperature of a portion of the backup member engaging only full width substrates. A controller is coupled to the media sensor and the temperature sensor for determining whether a substrate moving through the fuser assembly is a narrow width, mid-width or full width substrate.
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Campbell Thomas Judson
Cao Jichang
Cook William Paul
Gilmore James Douglas
Gogate Hrishikesh Pramod
Beatty Robert
Lexmark International Inc.
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