Recording medium heating apparatus and system including the recording medium heating apparatus
AssigneesRicoh Company, Ltd., SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
InventorsKen ONODERA, Genichiroh Kawamichi, Yasuhide Nakazawa, Yutaka Nagasawa, Shinji Nagayama
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Abstract
A recording medium heating apparatus includes a plurality of heat rollers disposed in a feeding path of a recording medium and having respective heating units; and a control unit controlling temperatures of the heating units so that the temperature of a first heat roller is lower than the temperature of a second heat roller. Further, the first and the second heat rollers are included in the plurality of heat rollers and the first heat roller is disposed on the upstream side of the second heat roller in the feeding path.
Claims8
A recording medium heating apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of heat rollers disposed in a feeding path of a recording medium and having respective heating units;
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- a control unit configured to control temperatures of the heating units so that the temperature of a first heat roller is lower than the temperature of a second heat roller, wherein the first and the second heat rollers are included in the plurality of heat rollers and the first heat roller is disposed on the upstream side of the second heat roller in the feeding path.
A recording medium heating apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of heat roller sets disposed in a feeding path of a recording medium, wherein each of the heat roller sets includes a heat roller having a heating unit and being in contact with one surface of the recording medium and another heat roller having a heating unit and being in contact with another surface of the recording medium;
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- a control unit configured to control temperatures of the heating units so that the temperature of the heat roller of a first heat roller set is lower than the temperature of the heat roller in a second heat roller set, wherein the first and the second heat roller sets are included in the plurality of heat roller sets and the first heat roller set is disposed on the upstream side of the second heat roller set in the feeding path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.