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US 9,440,457 B2Granted
Media treatment apparatus
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Indigo B.V.
InventorAlon Gazit
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Abstract
Media treatment apparatus to apply liquid treatment to media, the media treatment apparatus including a roller to receive liquid treatment and to transfer the liquid treatment, and a drop ejector to apply liquid treatment to the roller to transfer liquid treatment to an object.
Claims19
Media treatment apparatus to apply liquid treatment to media, the media treatment apparatus comprising:
- a roller to receive liquid treatment and to transfer the liquid treatment;
- a drop ejector to apply liquid treatment to the roller to transfer liquid treatment to the media;
- a controller to control the drop ejector to selectively apply liquid treatment to the roller;
- wherein the controller is arranged to determine a pattern for applying liquid treatment based on information for printing to the media, and to control the drop ejector to apply liquid treatment to the roller according to the determined pattern, and
- a second roller to receive the liquid treatment from a second drop ejector so as to apply the liquid treatment to the media, the roller and ejector being disposed to apply the liquid treatment to an opposite side of the media from the second roller and second drop ejector.
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A method of controlling media treatment apparatus, the method comprising:
- determining a pattern for applying liquid treatment based on information for printing to an object;
- controlling a drop ejector and a second drop ejector to selectively apply liquid treatment to a roller and a second roller according to the determined pattern;
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- controlling the roller and the second roller to transfer the liquid treatment to the object and to an opposite side of the object, respectively.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.