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US 2014/0150680 A1Published application
Apparatus, printers, and methods to remove material from a printer surface
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsDaihua Zhang, Napoleon J. Leoni, Henryk Birecki, Omer Gila
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Abstract
Apparatus, printers, and methods to remove material from a printer surface are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a fluid remover to remove printing material from a printer surface, and a coating material reservoir to store coating material and to apply the coating material to the fluid remover to reduce an amount of printing material transferred to the fluid remover from the printer surface.
Claims15
An apparatus to remove material from a printer surface, comprising:
- a fluid remover to remove printing material from a printer surface;
- and
- a coating material reservoir to store coating material and to apply the coating material to the fluid remover to reduce an amount of printing material transferred to the fluid remover from the printer surface.
A printer, comprising:
- a printer surface to receive a printing material;
- and
- a fluid remover to apply pressure to the printer surface, the fluid remover including a remover surface to be coated with a coating material, the fluid remover to remove a portion of the printing material from the printer surface.
A method to remove material from a printer surface, comprising:
- attaching a fluid remover to a printer, the fluid remover having a remover surface and a coating blade;
- and
- locating the remover surface to apply a first pressure to a printer surface and to be coated with a layer of a coating material, a thickness of the layer based on a second pressure between the remover surface and the coating blade.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.