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公开(公告)号:US20240173972A1
公开(公告)日:2024-05-30
申请号:US18059643
申请日:2022-11-29
申请人: XEROX CORPORATION
发明人: Peter KNAUSDORF , Sakib ZARGAR , Joseph C. SHEFLIN , Palghat S. RAMESH , Collin Alexander LADD , Chu-Heng LIU , Paul J. McCONVILLE
IPC分类号: B41J2/045 , G06V10/25 , G06V10/764 , G06V10/82
CPC分类号: B41J2/0456 , G06V10/25 , G06V10/764 , G06V10/82
摘要: A printing system and method of inspecting drop ejection in a printing system is disclosed. The method includes capturing an image of each of a plurality of drops of a print material after ejection from an ejector of a printing system, creating a temporally averaged image from each image of the plurality of drops of print material, and classifying one of the plurality of drops of print material based on the temporally averaged image that was created. The use of a pretrained convolutional neural network for classifying one of the plurality of drops and comparing the temporally averaged image to another temporally averaged image to classify one of the plurality of drops may be employed. The printing system also includes a camera with a high-speed shutter where the shutter is synchronized to an ejector pulse, and a video analytic framework coupled to the ejector and the camera configured to generate a jetting result for each of the one or more drops of liquid print material.
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公开(公告)号:US20180281456A1
公开(公告)日:2018-10-04
申请号:US15477156
申请日:2017-04-03
申请人: Xerox Corporation
发明人: Paul J. MCCONVILLE , Jason M. LEFEVRE , Chu-Heng LIU , Douglas K. HERRMANN , Kelly BURTON , Christopher Douglas ATWOOD , Elizabeth M. CROSSEN , Annie LIU
CPC分类号: H04N1/00129 , B41F17/002 , B41F17/006 , B41J3/4073 , H04N1/00278 , H04N1/00326 , H04N1/00342 , H04N1/00411 , H04N1/0044 , H04N1/3872 , H04N1/3877 , H04N1/393 , H04N2201/0084
摘要: What is disclosed is system which facilitates the application of a mark to a surface of an object in a direct-to-object print system and a direct-to-object print system configured to use various embodiments of the present marking system. The present marking system comprises a camera for capturing an image of an object retained by an object holder configured to slideably traverse a support member positioned to be parallel to a plane formed by at least one printhead configured to eject in onto a surface of the object. A processor receives an image of an object held and communicates the image to a display. A mark to be printed on the object is retrieved and overlaid on the object in the image. A location of the overlaid mark is determined and communicated to a controller which causes the printhead to print the mark on the object at the location.
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公开(公告)号:US20220305819A1
公开(公告)日:2022-09-29
申请号:US17216261
申请日:2021-03-29
申请人: XEROX CORPORATION
发明人: Patrick Jun HOWE , John Patrick BAKER , Brian M. BALTHASAR , Glenn BATCHELOR , Anthony Salvatore CONDELLO , Ali R. DERGHAM , Timothy P. FOLEY , Douglas K. HERRMANN , Richard A. KALB , Peter John KNAUSDORF , Jason M. LeFEVRE , Jack T. LESTRANGE , Chu-Heng LIU , Paul J. McCONVILLE , Seemit PRAHARAJ , Palghat S. RAMESH , Joseph C. SHEFLIN , Emmett James SPENCE , Robert Jian ZHANG , Megan ZIELENSKI
摘要: A printing system comprises a print fluid deposition assembly, a media transport device, and an air flow control system. The print fluid deposition assembly comprises a carrier plate and a printhead arranged to eject a print fluid through an opening of the carrier plate to a deposition region. The media transport device holds a print medium against the movable support surface by vacuum suction and transports the print medium through the deposition region. The air flow control system comprises an air supply unit comprising air flow guide structure extending into the opening of the carrier plate between the carrier plate and the printhead to flow air through the opening. The air flow control system controls the air supply unit to selectively flow the air based on a location of a print medium relative to the printhead.
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公开(公告)号:US20220305815A1
公开(公告)日:2022-09-29
申请号:US17216175
申请日:2021-03-29
申请人: XEROX CORPORATION
发明人: Douglas K. HERRMANN , Linn C. HOOVER , Patrick Jun HOWE , Joseph C. SHEFLIN , Robert Jian ZHANG , John Patrick BAKER , Brian M. BALTHASAR , Glenn BATCHELOR , Anthony Salvatore CONDELLO , Ali R. DERGHAM , Timothy P. FOLEY , Richard A. KALB , Peter John KNAUSDORF , Jason M. LeFEVRE , Jack T. LESTRANGE , Chu-Heng LIU , Paul J. McCONVILLE , Seemit PRAHARAJ , Palghat S. RAMESH , Erwin RUIZ , Emmett James SPENCE , Rachel Lynn TANCHAK , Kareem TAWIL , Carlos M. TERRERO , Megan ZIELENSKI
IPC分类号: B41J11/00
摘要: A printing system comprises a print fluid deposition assembly, a media transport device, and an air flow control system. The print fluid deposition assembly comprises a carrier plate and a printhead arranged to eject a print fluid through an opening of the carrier plate to a deposition region. The media transport device comprises a movable support surface to transport a print medium along a process direction through the deposition region, the media transport device holding the print medium against the movable support surface by vacuum suction. The air flow control system is arranged to selectively flow air through the opening of the carrier plate between the carrier plate and the printhead based on a location of a print medium transported by the media transport device relative to the printhead.
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公开(公告)号:US20230256749A1
公开(公告)日:2023-08-17
申请号:US17651248
申请日:2022-02-16
申请人: XEROX CORPORATION
发明人: Joseph C. SHEFLIN , Chu-Heng LIU , Paul J. McCONVILLE , Joshua S. HILTON , Kareem TAWIL , Brian M. BALTHASAR , Christopher T. CHUNGBIN
IPC分类号: B41J2/175
CPC分类号: B41J2/17563
摘要: A dross extraction system for a printer is disclosed. The dross extraction system includes an ejector defining an inner cavity associated therewith, the inner cavity retaining a liquid printing material. The dross extraction system also includes an inlet coupled to the inner cavity and a conduit external to the ejector having a distal opening, positionable to contact the liquid printing material to attract dross therein, thereby extracting dross from the liquid printing material when a negative pressure is introduced between an internal volume of the conduit and the dross.
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公开(公告)号:US20220314653A1
公开(公告)日:2022-10-06
申请号:US17218887
申请日:2021-03-31
申请人: XEROX CORPORATION
IPC分类号: B41J11/00
摘要: A printing system comprises a printhead to eject a print fluid to a deposition region. Print media are held against a movable support surface via vacuum suction, and the movable support surface transports the print media through the deposition region. A vacuum plenum comprises a vacuum platen over which the movable support surface moves. The vacuum platen has platen holes that communicate the vacuum suction from the vacuum plenum to the movable support surface. An airflow restriction mechanism forms a high impedance zone in the vacuum platen, the high impedance zone comprising a subset of the platen holes. The airflow impedance through the high impedance zone is relatively high compared to the airflow impedance through another subset of the platen holes, which are part of a low impedance zone. The high impedance zone may be located near the printhead to reduce airflow through uncovered platen holes near the printhead.
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公开(公告)号:US20220314650A1
公开(公告)日:2022-10-06
申请号:US17217466
申请日:2021-03-30
申请人: XEROX CORPORATION
IPC分类号: B41J11/00
摘要: A printing system comprises a printhead to eject ink through an opening in a carrier plate to a deposition region. A print medium is held against a movable support surface by vacuum suction communicated through platen holes of a vacuum platen and transported through the deposition region. An airflow control system comprises upstream and downstream valves associated with the printhead, individually addressable channels for the vacuum platen, or both. The upstream and downstream valves are arranged to selectively block and allow airflow through an upstream side or a downstream side, respectively, of the opening in the carrier plate. Actuation of the upstream and downstream valves may be controlled based on a location of the print medium. The channels are arranged to selectively control the supply of vacuum suction to respectively corresponding columns of platen holes. Actuation of the channels may be controlled based on a size of the print medium.
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公开(公告)号:US20220305817A1
公开(公告)日:2022-09-29
申请号:US17216232
申请日:2021-03-29
申请人: XEROX CORPORATION
IPC分类号: B41J11/00
摘要: A printing system comprises a print fluid deposition assembly, a media transport device, and an air flow control system. The print fluid deposition assembly comprises a printhead to eject a print fluid through an opening of a carrier plate to a deposition region. The media transport device holds a print medium against the movable support surface by vacuum suction and transports the print medium through the deposition region. The air flow control system comprises an air supply unit to selectively flow air through the opening based on a location of a print medium relative to the printhead. The air supply unit comprises an air guide structure comprising an air outlet portion extending into the opening of the carrier plate between the printhead and the carrier plate, the air outlet portion terminating in an end wall that is angled obliquely relative to the movable support surface towards a reverse-process direction.
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公开(公告)号:US20190184698A1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-20
申请号:US15847010
申请日:2017-12-19
申请人: Xerox Corporation
发明人: Chu-Heng LIU
CPC分类号: B41F35/002 , B41F7/26
摘要: A cleaning subsystem for a variable data lithography system includes a cleaning roller train having a cleaning member in physical contact with an imaging member such that residual ink remaining on the imaging member, such as following transfer of an inked latent image from the imaging member to a substrate, adheres to the cleaning member through cohesion and is thereby removed from the imaging member. The cleaning roller train uses the ink-splitting mechanics to remove, transport and collect the ink waste. The key cleaning roller train is a thin but uniform layer of ink on the cleaning member that contacts the imaging member causing removal on the residual ink through cohesion.
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公开(公告)号:US20190143716A1
公开(公告)日:2019-05-16
申请号:US16189153
申请日:2018-11-13
申请人: XEROX CORPORATION
IPC分类号: B41J11/00
CPC分类号: B41J11/002 , B41J2/0057
摘要: A solid blanket receives a flood layer of very thin (e.g., about 10 μm or less) image receiving UV curable coating, which may be a clear, substantially clear, or tinted UV ink. A lower viscosity digital ink image may then be printed on top of the flood layer, for example by jetting UV ink on top of the flood layer. The lower viscosity UV digital ink sits on top of the thicker UV curable coating and maintains its location by surface tension interaction with the coating. The combination of ink and coating is then partially cured to a tacky state at which point it is transferred to print media via a conformable pressure nip. Since the lower viscosity jetted inks are not responsible for directly wetting the media, media latitude widens greatly. Further, no dampening fluid or fountain solution is needed to aid the transfer or the imaging.
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