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US 6,920,704 B1Granted
Drying method for a printer
AssigneeSilverbrook Research Pty Ltd
InventorsKia Silverbrook, Tobin Allen King, Janette Faye Lee
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Abstract
The invention provides a method for drying a web of media in a printer such as a wallpaper printer. The method includes the step of loading the web in a path that traverses a compartment in a dryer in the printer. The compartment has an opening across the top. The web is allowed to descend into the comparetent, as required, to lengthen the path.
Claims46
A method for drying a moving web of media in a printer, the method comprising the steps of:
- loading the web in a path that traverses a compartment in a dryer within the printer, the compartment having an opening across the top;
- allowing the moving web to descend into the compartment, as required, so as to adopt a suspended partial loop;
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- blowing heated air from above the opening into the compartment so as to dry printing on the suspended partial loop of the media web.
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