Patent ID: 8814292

Claim:
A printer comprising: an inkjet printer having an inkjet print engine that prints an image by jetting drops of hydrophilic liquid to form an inkjet image on a surface of at least one of a semi-absorbent recording medium or a non-absorbent recording medium; a transport system to transport the printed surface to a toner printer having a toner print engine to generate a liquid management toner image with toner particles that are at least in part hydrophilic and to transfer the toner image onto the recording medium where an unabsorbed volume of the inkjet ink will be present on the recording medium; and a control system causing the inkjet printer to generate the inkjet image on the surface and causing the toner printer to generate a liquid management toner image that provides toner particles to manage an unabsorbed volume of the liquid hydrophilic inkjet ink on the surface to protect the recording medium from image artifacts that can be created by the unabsorbed volume of the inkjet ink on the surface without a liquid management toner image.