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AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsJoseph C. Sheflin, Jack T. Lestrange, Anthony S. Condello, Palghat S. Ramesh, Brian M. Balthasar
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Examples of the preferred embodiments use printed content (e.g., halftones, difference in grayscale or darkness) to determine thickness of fountain solution applied by a fountain solution applicator on an imaging member surface and/or determine image forming device real-time image forming modifications for subsequent printings. For example, in real-time during the printing of a print job, a sensor may measure halftones or grayscale differences between printed content and non-printed content of a current printing on print substrate. Based on this measurement of printed content output from the image forming device, the image forming device may adjust image forming (e.g., fountain solution deposition flow rate, imaging member rotation speed) to reach or maintain a preferred fountain solution thickness on the imaging member surface for subsequent (e.g., next) printings of the print job.
A method of controlling fountain solution thickness on an imaging member surface of a rotating imaging member in a digital image forming device, comprising:
A method of controlling fountain solution thickness on an imaging member surface of a rotating imaging member in a digital image forming device, the digital image forming device printing a current image having a grayscale level at a region of a print substrate, the printing including applying a fountain solution layer at a dispense rate onto the imaging member surface, vaporizing in an image wise fashion a portion of the fountain solution layer to form a latent image, applying ink onto the latent image over the imaging member surface, and transferring the applied ink from the imaging member surface to the print substrate at the region, the method comprising:
A method of measuring fountain solution thickness on an imaging member surface during a printing operation of an image by a digital image forming device, comprising:
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