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US 11,938,719 B2Granted
Drop-on-demand card printer with ink tray
AssigneeEntrust Corporation
InventorsAlex Zaborowski, Randy Jordan, Jon Wawra, Tim Flitsch, Cory Wooldridge, Daniel Sarkinen
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Abstract
A drop-on-demand plastic card printer includes a tray disposed underneath the plastic card during drop-on-demand printing to catch any overspray that may occur during printing on the plastic card. The tray may be disposable so that the tray is intended to be removed and disposed of. An ink absorbent pad can be disposed in the tray to absorb the oversprayed ink. The ink absorbent pad can be disposed of along with the tray or disposed of separately from the tray.
Claims22
A card printer that prints on a card, comprising:
- a drop-on-demand print station that includes at least one drop-on-demand print head, the drop-on-demand print station is configured to receive and print on the card;
- a card transport that is configured to transport the card to the drop-on-demand print station and to a printing position;
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- a tray mounted on the card transport and configured so that the tray is positioned under the card during printing on the card by the at least one drop-on-demand print head, the tray projects beyond edges of the card;
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- the card is mounted on the card transport at a distance above the tray whereby the card is not in direct physical contact with the tray.
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A card processing system, comprising:
- a card input that holds a plurality of cards to be printed, each card having an integrated circuit chip and/or a magnetic stripe;
- a card output that holds a plurality of the cards that have been printed;
- a drop-on-demand print station that includes at least one drop-on-demand print head, the drop-on-demand print station is configured to receive and print on one of the cards input from the card input;
- a card transport that is configured to transport the one card to the drop-on-demand print station and to a printing position;
- an integrated circuit chip programming system that is configured to program the integrated circuit chip of the one card and/or a magnetic stripe read/write system that is configured to read data from and/or write data to the magnetic stripe of the one card;
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- a tray mounted on the card transport and configured so that the tray is positioned under the one card during printing on the one card by the at least one drop-on-demand print head, the tray projects beyond at least one edge of the one card;
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- the one card is mounted on the card transport at a distance above the tray whereby the one card is not in direct physical contact with the tray.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.