Carbon filament lamp array
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsRoger G. Leighton, Paul M. Fromm, Robert P. Herloski
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Abstract
A lamp array for drying liquid ink on a media in a printing apparatus. The printing apparatus includes a transport system arranged to move the media through the printing apparatus in a process direction. The lamp array includes a plurality of lamps, each lamp of the plurality of lamps having a longitudinal axis arranged in a direction parallel to the process direction and adjacent to the transport system, wherein the plurality of lamps are equidistantly positioned substantially across a cross process width of the transport system.
Claims11
A lamp array for drying a liquid ink on a media in a printing apparatus, the printing apparatus comprising a media transport system having a cross process width, the media transport system arranged to move the media through the printing apparatus in a process direction, the lamp array comprising:
- a plurality of lamps, each lamp of the plurality of lamps having a longitudinal axis arranged in a direction parallel to the process direction and adjacent to the media transport system,
- wherein the plurality of lamps are equidistantly positioned substantially across the entire cross process width of the media transport system.
A drying system for drying a liquid ink on a media in a printing apparatus, the printing apparatus comprising a media transport system having a cross process width, the media transport system arranged to move the media through the printing apparatus in a process direction, the drying system comprising:
- a plurality of lamps, each lamp of the plurality of lamps having a longitudinal axis arranged in a direction parallel to the process direction and adjacent to the media transport system;
- a cooling plenum arranged elevationally above and adjacent to the plurality of lamps;
- and,
- an exhaust skirt arranged adjacent to the cooling plenum
- wherein the plurality of lamps are equidistantly positioned substantially across the entire cross process width of the transport system.
A lamp array for drying a liquid ink on a web in a printing apparatus, the web moving through the printing apparatus in a process direction, the lamp array comprising:
- a plurality of lamps, each lamp of the plurality of lamps having a longitudinal axis arranged in a direction parallel to the process direction and in a region within the printing apparatus adjacent to the web, the region having a cross process width,
- wherein the plurality of lamps are equidistantly positioned substantially across the entire cross process width of the region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.