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US 2002/0159813 A1Published application
Ink jet printer equipped for avoiding undesired belt movement
AssigneeAgfa-Gevaert
InventorsBart Verhoest, Hilbrand Vanden Wyngaert, Dirk De Ruijeter, Bart Verlinden
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Abstract
An ink jet printer wherein a belt transports an image receiving member past a printhead is equipped with guiding means (18) for creating a bulge, d, in the belt, extending towards the ink ejecting means, thus keeping the “throw distance” constant and/or with rollers for moving the belt, one of the rollers having a flange and being positioned so as to force the belt agains the flange.
Claims12
An ink jet printer comprising
- an ink ejecting means,
- a belt for passing a receiving substrate near said ink ejecting means and
- a first and a second roller for moving said belt in the sense of arrow A, each of said rollers having a first and a second end and an axis, characterised in that
- said belt contacts a guiding means, placed between said first and second roller, for creating a bulge, d, in said belt, extending towards said ink ejecting means.
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An ink jet printer comprising
- an ink ejecting means,
- a belt for passing a receiving substrate near said ink ejecting means and
- a first and a second roller for moving said belt (14) in the sense of arrow A, each of said rollers having a first and a second end and an axis, characterised in that
- said first roller has a flange at said first end and is placed in said printer so that it deviates from parallelism with said second rollerover an angle α chosen so that said belt is forced against said flange.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.