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US 2010/0075048 A1Published application
Method Of Forming Solid Ink Stick With Coded Mark
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsAnthony John Peters, Richard Marc Watson, Brennan Grantley John Miles
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Abstract
A method of manufacturing an ink stick provides the ink stick with a coded mark. The method includes forming an ink stick body of a phase change ink composition, and applying a marking composition to a surface of the ink stick body to form a coded mark on the surface of the ink stick body at the marking station, the marking composition being composed of the same phase change ink composition used to form the ink stick body.
Claims18
A method of manufacturing an ink stick, the method comprising:
- forming an ink stick body of a phase change ink composition;
- and
- applying a marking composition to a surface of the ink stick body to form a coded mark on the surface of the ink stick body at the marking station, the marking composition being composed of the same phase change ink composition used to form the ink stick body.
A method of marking a solid ink stick comprising:
- obtaining an unmarked ink stick comprised of a phase change ink composition;
- and
- applying a marking composition to a surface of the ink stick body to form a coded mark on the surface of the ink stick body at a marking station, the marking composition being composed of the same phase change ink composition used to form the ink stick body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.