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US 11,429,053 B2Granted
Imaging system with toner leveling and glossing device
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsTatsunori Izawa, Takayuki Horie
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Abstract
An imaging system includes a toner transfer device, a leveling device and a glossing device. The toner transfer device transfers gloss toner to a surface of a medium. The leveling device levels a layer of the gloss toner on the surface of the medium. The glossing device performs a re-melting process and a cooling process on the medium after the layer of the gloss toner has been leveled.
Claims20
An imaging system comprising:
- a toner transfer device to transfer gloss toner to a surface of a medium having an image formed thereon;
- a leveling device comprising a blade or a roller and disposed on a downstream side of the toner transfer device in a conveyance direction of the medium along a conveyance path, the blade or the roller to level a layer of the gloss toner on the surface of the medium;
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- a glossing device disposed on a downstream side of the leveling device, in the conveyance direction, the glossing device to perform a re-melting process and a cooling process on the medium after the layer of the gloss toner is leveled.
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A gloss treatment device comprising:
- a toner transfer device to transfer gloss toner to a surface of a medium;
- a leveling device comprising a blade or a roller to level a layer of the gloss toner formed on the medium;
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- a glossing device to perform a re-melting process and a cooling process on the medium after the layer of the gloss toner has been leveled.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.