Patent ID: 7934785

Claim:
A coating system for use in an inkjet imaging device, the coating system comprising: a high gloss coating ink supply source for supplying a high gloss coating ink having a first gloss level; a low gloss coating ink supply source for supplying a low gloss coating ink having a second gloss level, the second gloss level being less than the first gloss level; a coating module configured to receive the high gloss coating ink and the low gloss coating ink from the high gloss coating ink supply source and the low gloss coating ink supply source, respectively, the coating module including: a first group of inkjet nozzles configured to eject the high gloss coating ink; a second group of inkjet nozzles configured to eject the low gloss coating ink; a reservoir having an ink stirrer positioned within the reservoir, the reservoir configured to receive quantities of the high gloss coating ink and the low gloss coating ink and the ink stirrer configured to commingle a quantity of the high gloss coating ink and a quantity of the low gloss coating ink to generate an intermediate gloss coating ink, the intermediate gloss coating ink having a gloss level between the first gloss level and the second gloss level; a third group of inkjet nozzles operatively connected to the reservoir to receive the intermediate gloss coating ink from the reservoir and to eject the intermediate gloss coating ink; and a controller operatively connected to the ink stirrer, the controller being configured to operate the stirrer with reference to mixing data.