Patent ID: 8705988
Filing Date: 2014-04-22
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. A printer comprising: a receiver transport system having a moving surface that moves a receiver along a printing path leading to a printing area where a printer engine transfers toner forming a print image; a sheet delivery system that provides a sheet on the moving surface; a receiver delivery system that provides a receiver having a cross edge to which a printed image is to extend in the printing path for movement with the sheet; a printer controller that causes the sheet delivery system, the receiver delivery system and the receiver transport system to position the receiver and the sheet with the cross edge positioned on the sheet to separate a portion of the sheet that is masked from toner transfer from an unmasked portion of the sheet; wherein the printer controller further causes the receiver and the sheet to move through the printing area so that the cross edge is moved through the printing area during transfer of a toner of the print image, and wherein the unmasked portion of the sheet is positioned to receive any portion of the print image that is transferred when the receiver is not in the printing area; and wherein the cross edge is a trailing edge of the receiver as the receiver is moved along the printing path and wherein the receiver is positioned on the sheet with the trailing edge of the receiver at a separation distance ahead of a leading edge of the sheet as the sheet and receiver are moved along the printing path.