Patent ID: 6608641
Filing Date: 2003-08-19
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
A printer for printing color toner images on a receiver member, said receiver member being one or more of a group of materials including paper, polymeric materials including rubbers and plastics, coatings including clay coatings and polymer coatings, fibers including polymer fibers and textile fibers, reinforcing materials, fabrics, and cloth, said receiver member having a transferee surface included in a plurality of types of transferee surface, said plurality of types of transferee surface including smooth, rough, textured, patterned, reinforced and woven surfaces, said printer comprising:a number of tandemly arranged electrophotographic image-forming modules, a respective image-forming module including a plurality of imaging subsystems for making toner images of a respective single color, said toner images of a respective single color for non-thermally-assisted electrostatic transfer to said receiver member, a toner image of a respective single color formed in said respective module for transfer to said receiver member, said receiver member moved successively through said modules so as to form an unfused color print, said unfused color print thereafter moved through a fusing station included in said printer so as to form a fused color print; and the image quality of said fused color print is selected to be at least as high as a predetermined nominal image quality, said image quality of said fused color print produced by a non-operational co-optimization of fusing station-parameters and imaging subsystem parameters, said non-operational co-optimization enabling said printing on said plurality of types of transferee surface.