Patent ID: 8565654
Filing Date: 2013-10-22
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. A transfer station for an EP printer adapted to transfer a toner image to a receiver sheet being carried on a rotatable transport web, the transfer station comprising: a) the rotatable transport web; b) a rotatable image-bearing member around which the transport web is at least partially wrapped, so that a transfer region is defined in which toner is transferred from the image-bearing member to the receiver sheet; c) a nip-forming ski adjacent to the transport web on the opposite side thereof from the image-bearing member and extending upstream of the transfer region; and d) a ski mount arranged to cause the ski to press the transport web towards the image-bearing member; e) so that as the receiver sheet moves with the transport web, the receiver sheet engages the image-bearing member upstream of the transfer region, causing the transport web to push against the ski to provide a selected nip spacing between the image-bearing member and the transport web in the transfer region.