Electrophotography – Control of electrophotography process – Control of fixing
Patent
1995-12-28
1998-05-26
Beatty, Robert
Electrophotography
Control of electrophotography process
Control of fixing
399384, G03G 1520
Patent
active
057582270
ABSTRACT:
In a thermal fixing system for fixing toner images on the front side of a recording medium in an electrographic printer or copier device, wherein the back side of the recording medium can already have a fixed toner image. The thermal fixing means contains a heat transfer fixing station that fixes the toner images on the recording medium, and contains a pre-heating saddle that precedes the heat transfer fixing station in a running direction of the recording medium. A sliding surface that accepts the recording medium over its back side is allocated to the pre-heating saddle. The sliding surface is constructed of a toner-repellant material at least in a contact region with the recording medium. The preheating saddle is designed as a low temperature saddle with the largest possible constructional length, so that a temperature difference between recording substrate and saddle surface is as small as possible. The preheating saddle has, in the recording substrate running direction, a plurality of heating zones. A control device controls the heating zones in such a manner that, along the preheating saddle, an approximately constant thermal energy flow occurs on the saddle surface to the recording substrate. For matching the preheating saddle to various recording substrate widths, the preheating saddle is subdivided, transversely to the recording substrate running direction, into individually drivable transverse heating zones.
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Beatty Robert
Oce Printing Systems GmbH
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