Patent ID: 8662657
Filing Date: 2014-03-04
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a printer comprising: forming a first ink image that is a second side image of a duplex page on an image receiving member and forming a second ink image that is a first side image of another duplex page on the image receiving member, the first ink image and the second ink image being separated by a first inter-document zone and a second inter-document zone; moving a transfix roller into engagement with the image receiving member to form a nip as the first ink image on the image receiving member approaches the nip; and continually rotating the image receiving member as the first ink image is transferred to a second side of a first sheet of recording media bearing an ink image on a first side of the first sheet as one of the inter-document zones on the image receiving member moves through the nip, and as the second ink image is transferred to a first side of a second sheet of recording media on which no other ink image has been previously transferred.