Carbon filament lamp array
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsRoger G. LEIGHTON, Paul M. FROMM, Robert P. HERLOSKI
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Abstract
A lamp array for drying liquid ink on a media in a printing apparatus. The printing apparatus includes a transport system arranged to move the media through the printing apparatus in a process direction. The lamp array includes a plurality of lamps, each lamp of the plurality of lamps having a longitudinal axis arranged in a direction parallel to the process direction and adjacent to the transport system, wherein the plurality of lamps are equidistantly positioned substantially across a cross process width of the transport system.
Claims18
A method of drying a liquid ink on a media in a printing apparatus, the printing apparatus comprising a transport system and a drying system, the transport system is arranged to move the media through the printing apparatus in a process direction, the drying system comprises at least one lamp having a longitudinal axis and adjacent to the transport system, a cooling plenum arranged elevationally above and adjacent to the at least one lamp, and an exhaust skirt arranged adjacent to the cooling plenum, the method comprising:
- positioning the longitudinal axis of the at least one lamp in a direction parallel to the process direction;
- and,
- moving the media in the process direction adjacent to the at least one lamp.
A method of drying a liquid ink on a media in a printing apparatus, the printing apparatus comprising a media transport system and a drying system, the media transport system having a cross process width, the media transport system arranged to move the media through the printing apparatus in a process direction, the drying system comprising:
- a lamp array including a plurality of lamps,
- the method comprising:
- positioning the longitudinal axis of each of the plurality of lamps of the lamp array in a direction parallel to the process direction and adjacent to the media transport system, each of the plurality of lamps equidistantly positioned substantially across the entire cross process width of the media transport system;
- and,
- moving the media in the process direction adjacent to at least one lamp of the plurality of lamps.
A method of drying a liquid ink on a media in a printing apparatus, the printing apparatus comprising a media transport system and a drying system, the media transport system having a cross process width, the media transport system arranged to move the media through the printing apparatus in a process direction, the drying system comprising:
- a lamp array including a plurality of lamps;
- a cooling plenum arranged elevationally above and adjacent to each lamp of the plurality of lamps;
- and,
- an exhaust skirt arranged adjacent to the cooling plenum,
- the method comprising:
- positioning the longitudinal axis of each of the plurality of lamps of the lamp array in a direction parallel to the process direction and adjacent to the media transport system;
- positioning each of the plurality of lamps equidistantly substantially across the entire cross process width of the media transport system;
- and,
- moving the media in the process direction adjacent to at least one lamp of the plurality of lamps.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.