Method and apparatus for fluff management in an image production device
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsRobert Alan Clark, Lloyd Williams
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for fluff management in an image production device is disclosed. The method may include fluffing a stack of media with a predetermined amount of air flow, sensing sheet separation in the media stack, determining if the sheet separation meets predetermined criteria, wherein if the sheet separation does not meet the predetermined criteria, adjusting the air flow used for fluffing the media stack.
Claims18
A method for fluff management in an image production device, comprising:
- fluffing a stack of media with a predetermined amount of air flow;
- sensing sheet separation in the media stack;
- determining if the sheet separation meets predetermined criteria, the predetermined criteria being a number of sensor pixels per sheet of media, wherein if the sheet separation does not meet the predetermined criteria,
- adjusting the air flow used for fluffing the media stack.
A fluff management unit for use in an image production device, comprising:
- a fluffer that fluffs a stack of media in the image production device with a predetermined amount of air flow;
- a fluff sensor that senses separation of sheets of media in the media stack;
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- a fluff controller that determines if the sheet separation meets predetermined criteria, the predetermined criteria being a number of sensor pixels per sheet of media, wherein if the fluff controller determines that the sheet separation does not meet the predetermined criteria, the fluff controller adjusts the air flow used for fluffing the media stack.
A computer-readable medium storing instructions for controlling a computing device for fluff management in an image production device, the instructions comprising:
- fluffing a stack of media with a predetermined amount of air flow;
- sensing sheet separation in the media stack;
- determining if the sheet separation meets predetermined criteria, the predetermined criteria being a number of sensor pixels per sheet of media, wherein if the sheet separation does not meet the predetermined criteria,
- adjusting the air flow used for fluffing the media stack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.