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US 7,207,670 B2Granted
Inkjet printer with in-built drying compartment
AssigneeSilverbrook Research Pty Ltd
InventorsKia Silverbrook, Tobin Allen King, Janette Lee Faye
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Abstract
An inkjet printer has a drying compartment for the freshly printed media web. The compartment has a top opening for receiving the media web fed from the printhead, the top opening being configured so that the media web is received as a suspended partial loop within the compartment. The printer also has a source of heated air located above the top opening for blowing heated air into the compartment through the top opening to dry printing on the suspended partial loop of the media web.
Claims19
An inkjet printer comprising:
- a printhead;
- a drying compartment with a top opening for receiving a media web fed from the printhead, the top opening being configured so that the media web is received as a suspended partial loop within the compartment;
- and
- a source of heated air located above the top opening for blowing heated air into the compartment through the top opening to dry printing on the suspended partial loop of the media web,
- wherein a door covers the entire top opening and acts to support the web when the door is closed.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.