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US 11,009,823 B2Granted
Feed path switching member for an image forming apparatus to guide a recording medium to a first or second feed path connecting a fixing unit and a feed roller of an inkjet image forming unit
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsYoungsu Lee, Heungsup Park, Yuntae Kim, Eogkyu Kim
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus employing an electrophotographic image forming unit and an inkjet image forming unit, thereby being capable of printing an image on each of a front surface and the back surface of a recording medium.
Claims15
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an inkjet image forming unit comprising a feed roller to transport a recording medium;
- a first feed path connecting a fixing unit which fixes a toner image onto the recording medium and the feed roller;
- a second feed path connecting the fixing unit and the feed roller, wherein the second feed path does not include an entirety of the first feed path;
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- a feed path switching member to be switchable to a first position to guide the recording medium having passed through the fixing unit to the first feed path, and to be switchable to a second position to guide the recording medium having passed through the fixing unit to the second feed path.
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An image forming method comprising:
- forming an ink image on a recording medium in an inkjet image forming unit comprising a feed roller to transport a recording medium;
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- switching a switching member to guide the recording medium having passed through a fixing unit which fixes a toner image onto the recording medium to a first feed path or to guide the recording medium having passed through the fixing unit to a second feed path,
- wherein the second feed path does not include an entirety of the first feed path, and the first feed path connects the fixing unit and the feed roller, and the second feed path connects the fixing unit and the feed roller.
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