Abstract: A printer or copier has a toner transfer belt which is moved into an out of engagement with a transfer printing area. The toner transfer belt is carried on an arrangement of rollers that maintain a constant tension on the toner transfer belt. Rigid linking levers extend between the rollers of the roller arrangement so that belt tension is maintained by movement of compensation rollers, outward while moving a transfer roller upward, for example.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for coating a container for acceptance of consumables. An information carrier is provided on the container for the first memory area in which a container-individual identifier number is non-erasably stored, and an erasable second memory area is provided of the information carrier providing consumable-specific data.

Abstract: A method for improving the printing quality, particularly for electrographic color printing, is described for a printer or copier system (1). Print consumables, particularly toner (59), are monitored in container-exact fashion and substance-specific information are employed for the control of the printing process.

Abstract: In a method for improving the printing quality for electrographic color printing, print consumables, particularly toner, are monitored in container-exact fashion and substance-specific information are employed for the control of the printing process. Toner expiration dates for the consumables are identified and noted early at the respective printing location. The consumable contained in the container and the amount of consumable contained is thus stored in machine-readable fashion at the container. An information carrier is provided at the container for non-contacting transmission of data and energy from a data read and/or write station to the container. A transponder that is provided with an individual hardware identifier is provided as the information carrier. The hardware identifier may be employed as a component part of codes for device control. The printer or copier system disclosed includes a recycling concept for consumables containers.

Abstract: A printer for printing endless paper webs on both sides has two printing stations with a web turnover station therebetween. The paper web is fed in parallel side-by-side to the two printing stations which are on the same rollers. The drive of the web through the printer is by a positive drive, using pins to engage holes in the paper web, for example, into the first printing station. The drive of the paper web thereafter is by friction drive to permit slippage in the drive to compensate for variations in paper length during heating, etc. The slippage is controlled by brakes or other drag inducing devices acting on one or both of the two portions of the paper web.

Abstract: A printer for optionally printing the front side and back side of a band-shaped recording medium has a feed device to move the recording medium from the front side printing and fixing stations to a turn-overs station where it is turned over and returned to the printing and fixing station to print the back side. Pairs of driven rollers are provided in the paper channel to move the recording medium, wherein the frictional forces on the recording medium by the rollers can be set. The rollers are reversible and can also be swivelled out for certain printing modes and recording media sizes. Automatic threading of the recording medium is provided.

Abstract: The apparatus for conveying finely powdered material from a reservoir includes a suction/pressure unit that projects into the reservoir. A gas is introduced into the suction/pressure unit and is mixed with the finely powdered material that is sucked into suction/pressure unit from the reservoir to form a powder/gas mixture and this mixture is discharged. Compressed air blows into the reservoir in a finely dispersed manner to fluidized the finely powdered material so that the extraction of the finely powdered material from the reservoir is facilitated.

Abstract: A method for operation of a printing mechanism in an electrographic printer or copier, whereby a charge image is applied at a surface region of a toner image carrier. The surface region provided with the charge image is conveyed past at the transfer surface of a transfer element at a spacing of a developing gap. The actual width of the gap is controlled with a loop control circuit.

Abstract: A printer for selectively printing on one or both sides of a web-shaped recording medium includes a paper turn-over apparatus in the paper conveying channel. The turn-over apparatus is a removable unit and can be changed from a turn-over operation for two sided printing to a parallel conveyance for one sided printing of two recording mediums. A conveyor that moves the recording medium through the printer has an adjustable width to adapt to different recording medium widths. The conveyor includes a return which returns the recording medium to the turn-over apparatus after being printed on one side. The return includes a traction roller pair and a lever to swivel one of the rollers in and out. A connecting channel leads from the traction rollers and includes guide baffles. Conveyor rollers are arranged along the connecting channel at less than the spacing of the folds in the folded recording medium.

Abstract: An electrophotographic printer device for both-sided printing of a tape-shaped, narrow recording medium (10) and for single-sided printing of a wide recording medium or a plurality of parallel, narrow recording media (10/1,10/2,10/3) contains a printer module that is designed for printing recording media differing in width. A delivery module and a turn-over module (28) are removably arranged in the printer module, the narrow recording medium (10) being turned over after the printing of the front side and being reconducted through the printer module for printing the back side via said delivery module and turn-over module.

Abstract: An electrographic printing or copying machine contains, by way of example, a preheating saddle (20,21) positioned upstream of a pair of fixing rollers in the recording substrate running direction and a braking element (10). The preheating saddle (20,21) and braking elements (10) form a gliding surface (23). Suction openings (18,19) in fluid communication with a vacuum-generating device ensure good contact between gliding surface (23) and recording substrate. With the aid of a valve (1), the vacuum can be matched to the operating parameters of the printing and copying machine, or to the parameters of the recording substrate.

Abstract: A thermofixiug device for fixing toner images on a strip-shaped or sheet-like recording substrate (17) of an electrophotographic printing or copying machine contains a thermoprinting fixing station (11, 12) and a heated preheating saddle (15) located upstream of the thermoprinting fixing station in the recording substrate running direction. The preheating saddle (15) is designed as a low temperature saddle with the largest possible constructional length, so that the temperature difference between recording substrate (17) end saddle surface (24) is as small as possible. The preheating saddle has, in the recording substrate running direction, a plurality of heating zones (21, 23). A control device controls the heating zones (21, 23) in such a manner that, along the preheating saddle (15), an approximately constent thermal energy flow occurs on the saddle surface (24) to the recording substrate (17).

Abstract: A printing or copying apparatus is provided having a thermofixing device for fixing a toner image to a sheet recording medium or substrate, such as paper. The apparatus has at least one cooling device operable to cool the substrate after it passes through the thermofixing device and before the substrate is stacked. The cooling performed by the cooling device prevents the toner image from undesirably sticking to an adjacently overlying substrate surface after stacking.

Abstract: The device for transporting recording media (100), used especially in a fuser station of a printer or photocopier, comprises a counter-roll (201) and a feed roll (205), mounted movably relative to the counter-roll (201), between which rolls the recording medium (100) is transported by friction. Furthermore, a guide bar (214) is arranged in the manner of a balance beam with spacing parallel to the feed roll (205) and so as to be pivotable about an axis of rotation (216) relative to the feed roll (205). In order to press the feed roll (205) against the counter-roll in a force-compensating manner, as required, spring elements (218) are arranged on the guide bar (214) on both sides of the axis of rotation and are coupled to bearing elements (206) of the feed roll (205). The guide bar can be deflected via an adjusting motor (224) for controlling the position of the recording medium (100) between the rolls (201, 205).

Abstract: An arrangement for the lateral positioning of a recording medium (100) in a printer or photocopier comprises a scanning arrangement (S) for establishing the ACTUAL position of the recording medium and a motor-drivable roll arrangement consisting of a counter-roll (201) and a pressure roll (205) which can be pivoted onto and away from the counter-roll (201), between which rolls the recording medium is guided. Furthermore, an apparatus (E) is provided for the controllable adjusting of the pressing force at the feed roll (205) on the counter-roll (201) along its roll length, and a control arrangement (P) which registers the ACTUAL position of the recording medium (100) via the scanning arrangement (S) and adjusts the pressing force of the feed roll (205) via the said apparatus (E) as a function of a predeterminable REFERENCE position. The arrangement is used preferably in the fuser station of an electro-photographic printer for the controllable lateral positioning of the recording medium (100).

Abstract: A character generator for use in a non-mechanical printer is embodied in an electrophotographic printer. A character generator (1) having a plurality of light sources (113) is provided in a non-mechanical printer. The light sources (113) are secured to the character generator (1) in the form of chips (112). Given outage of a light source (113) it is not possible without further ado to replace individual chips (112) and the complete character generator (1) must be replaced.Inventively, the character generator (1) is modularly constructed, i.e. individual modules (11) each having a respective plurality of light sources (113) are detachably secured to a module carrier (13), so that individual modules (11) can be very easily replaced given the outage of individual light sources (113) or of other electronic component parts.

Abstract: What is required for the arrangement of modules (11) on a module carrier (13), for example in an optical character generator (1), is that the modules (11) be positively and non-positively fixed on the module carrier (13), particularly given the occurrence of thermal expansions. In accord with the invention, a fastening means (7) is provided for that purpose that is arranged in a bore (135, 135) inclined relative to the contacting surface of the module (11) and of the module carrier (13) and thereby detachably fastens the module on the module carrier (13). Arrangement for detachably fastening modules (11) on a module carrier (13), particularly for the character generator (1) of a non-mechanical printer.

Abstract: An electrophotographic printer having an optical character generator and an exposure energy correcting means formed of a light-emitting diode strip for the optical character generator. Upon call-in of a balancing routing, an automatic balancing of the light-emitting elements occurs by use of a photoelement which acquires a radiant intensity transmitted onto the recording medium by every light-emitting element under prescribed normal operating conditions, and which supplies corresponding signals to a control means coupled to the light-emitting element. The control means then assigns every light-emitting element an individual actuation time and stores this in a switching time memory. Upon actuation, every light-emitting element thus supplies the same radiant energy to the recording medium.