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US 9,855,769 B2Granted
Curing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and articles of manufacture
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsFrancisco Javier Perez Gellida, Luis Fernando Martinez Nieto, Francisco Javier Rodriguez Escanuela
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Abstract
Curing apparatus, image forming apparatus and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example curing apparatus includes a curing unit to heat an area adjacent a substrate travel path, the curing unit having a width less than a width of the substrate travel path, and a controller to reciprocate the curing unit within the substrate width.
Claims13
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a print head to apply a marking agent to a print substrate comprising a substrate width and traveling in a substrate travel path;
- a curing assembly positioned after the print head in a direction of travel of the print substrate, the curing assembly to move along the print substrate width and cease moving at an outer edge of the substrate defining the width,
- a carriage to reciprocate a curing unit of the curing assembly across the width of the print substrate,
- wherein the carriage is to move the curing unit at a first rate within a central region of the print substrate and move the curing unit at a second rate within at least one edge region of the print substrate, the second rate being slower than the first rate.
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