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US 7,441,866 B2Granted
Print media air drying inkjet printer
AssigneeSilverbrook Research Pty Ltd
InventorKia Silverbrook
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Abstract
An inkjet printer includes an air duct arranged to deliver air to the printer's print media transport assembly in order to warm-set dry print media before its exit from the printer. To facilitate circulation of the air the transport assembly includes foraminous conveyor belts which are sufficiently long to allow for approximately 1 second of drying time at the printer's operational speed.
Claims6
An inkjet printer including:
- a housing;
- an elongate print media transport assembly mounted in the housing;
- a pagewidth printhead mounted in the housing so as to be located at a print media entry side of the print media transport assembly;
- an air duct mounted in the housing so as to be arranged to deliver air to said transport assembly in order to dry print media in use;
- and
- vents located in a side wall of the housing for the exit of air.
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