Refreshing a sticky cleaner for a fuser
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsNancy Y. Jia, Gerald M. Fletcher
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Abstract
A method of refreshing a sticky cleaner used for cleaning a fuser member in an electrophotographic printer is disclosed. The method includes the steps of precoating the cleaner member with a low cost polymer toner material prior to a printing operation removing contaminants from the sticky surface of the cleaner member. A refreshed cleaning member prior to being used to clean a fuser in an electrophotographic printer in accordance with the features of the present invention includes a surface cleaning member having minimal contaminants thereon, and a coating of a plastic toner material that can become tacky at the operating cleaner temperatures.
Claims16
A method of refreshing a sticky cleaner member used for cleaning a transfuse member or a fuser member in an electrophotographic printer comprising the steps of:
- (i) precoating the cleaner member with spent waste toner material prior to a printing operation;
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- (ii) removing contaminants from the sticky surface of the cleaner member.
A method of refreshing a sticky cleaner member used for cleaning a transfuse member or a fuser member in an electrophotographic printer comprising the steps of:
- (i) precoating said cleaner member with waste toner from other cleaning systems
- (ii) refreshing the sticky cleaner member, after contamination due to at least one printing operation, with a waste toner layer which covers a contaminated toner layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.