Image formation device including a liquid removal belt
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsNapoleon J Leoni, Omer Gila
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Abstract
An image formation device includes a support to support movement of a substrate along a travel path, a fluid ejection device, and a belt. The fluid ejection device is located along the travel path to deposit droplets of ink particles within a liquid carrier onto the substrate to at least partially form an image on the substrate. The belt is a flexible belt located downstream along the travel path from the fluid ejection device and includes a contact portion to arcuately conform relative to, and be in movable contact against, a first arcuate portion of the substrate to at least partially remove the liquid carrier from the substrate.
Claims15
An image formation device comprising:
- a support to support movement of a substrate along a travel path;
- a fluid ejection device along the travel path to deposit droplets of ink particles within a liquid carrier onto the substrate to at least partially form an image on the substrate;
- a flexible belt located downstream along the travel path from the fluid ejection device and including a contact portion to arcuately conform relative to, and be in moving contact against, a first arcuate portion of the substrate to at least partially remove the liquid carrier from the substrate.
An image formation device comprising:
- a support to support movement of a substrate along a travel path;
- a fluid ejection device along the travel path to deposit droplets of ink particles within a liquid carrier onto the substrate to at least partially form an image on the substrate;
- and
- a flexible first belt downstream along the travel path from the fluid ejection device;
- a contact zone in which the first belt wrappably conforms to, and is to be in rolling contact against, an arcuate first portion of the substrate to at least partially remove the liquid carrier from the substrate as the substrate is to move along the travel path.
A method comprising:
- moving a substrate along a travel path;
- depositing, via a fluid ejection device, droplets of ink particles within a liquid carrier onto the substrate to at least partially form an image on the substrate;
- and
- removing at least a portion of the liquid carrier from the substrate via applying a contact portion of flexible first belt in pressured conformable engagement against the substrate to define an arcuate contact zone between the contact portion and a first portion of the substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.