Process and apparatus for transferring and fusing an image to a recording medium
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsGerald A. Domoto, Elias Panides
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Abstract
In an imaging process, a toned image layer on an image receptor is simultaneously transferred and fused to a recording medium. A radiation curable material is incorporated in the toned image layer such that when the toned image layer is irradiated, the radiation curable material is cured. The resulting cured material has greater adhesion to the toner material and the recording medium than to the surface of the image receptor. The apparatus for performing the above process is also disclosed.
Claims27
The method of transferring an image from an image receptor to a recording medium, which method comprises:
- forming a toned image layer on a surface of an image receptor, the toned image layer comprising a toner material and a radiation-curable material;
- contacting a recording medium with the toned image layer;
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- irradiating the toned image layer in contact with the recording medium to cure said radiation curable material;
- wherein the resulting cured material has greater adhesion to the toner material and the recording medium than to the surface of the image receptor.
The method of claim I, wherein the toned image layer on the image receptor is partially cured before contacting the recording medium.
An apparatus for transferring and fusing a toned image layer from an image receptor to a recording medium, which apparatus comprises
- an image receptor comprising a component transparent to radiation for curing a radiation-curable material,
- means for contacting a recording medium with the image receptor to at least partially transfer a toned image layer from the image receptor to the recording material, wherein said toned image layer comprises a toner material and a radiation-curable material, and
- a source of radiation for curing said radiation curable material positioned to cure the radiation curable material by passing radiation through the radiation transparent component of the image receptor as the image receptor contacts the recording medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.