Patent ID: 7512377

Claim:
An electrographic printing system comprising: a movable image carrying member for carrying a developed liquid toner image; a transfer station for transferring the developed liquid toner image to a sheet at a process speed; a registration system for registering the sheet transported along a sheet path, the registration system comprising: a non-registering first transport station configured to slow the sheet based on a first set of predetermined registration velocity profiles for applying a first set of speeds before commencement of registration, the non-registering first transport station is disposed along the sheet path for receiving the sheet substantially at an input speed and for slowing the sheet along the sheet path to a registering speed which is slower than the input speed; a first apparatus in operative communication with the non-registering first transport station for decreasing the speed of the sheet to the registering speed; a registering second transport station configured for registering the sheet based on a second set of predetermined registration velocity profiles for applying a second set of speeds after the commencement of registration, the registering second transport station is disposed downstream the sheet path relative to the non-registering first transport station and upstream of the transfer station for receiving the sheet at a process speed; and a second apparatus in operative communication with the second transport station for exerting at least one force on the sheet for registering the sheet by correcting at least one of lateral position of the sheet, skew of the sheet, and timing error in the downstream direction, wherein the registering speed is approximately equal to the process speed when the leading edge of the sheet arrives at the registering second transport station; and wherein the first set of predetermined registration velocity profiles are different than the second set of predetermined registration velocity profiles and the first set of speeds are different than the second set of speeds.