Curing Apparatus, Image Forming Apparatus, and Articles of Manufacture
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsFoo Javier Perez Gellida, Luis Fernando Martinez Nieto, Francisco Javier Rodriguez Escanuela
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Abstract
Curing apparatus, image forming apparatus and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example curing apparatus includes a curing unit to heat an area adjacent a substrate travel path, the curing unit having a width less than a width of the substrate travel path, and a controller to reciprocate the curing unit within the substrate width.
Claims15
A curing apparatus comprising:
- a curing unit to heat an area adjacent a substrate travel path, the curing unit having a width less than a width of the substrate travel path;
- and
- a controller to reciprocate the curing unit within the substrate width.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a print head to apply a marking agent to a print substrate having a substrate width and traveling in a substrate travel path;
- and
- a curing assembly positioned after the print head in a direction of travel of the print substrate, the curing assembly to move along the substrate width and cease moving at an outer edge of the substrate defining the width.
A tangible article of manufacture comprising machine readable instructions which, when executed, cause a machine to at least:
- receive information representative of a width of a print substrate associated with a print operation;
- and
- control a curing unit to move within the width of the print substrate to cure ink applied to the print substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.