Patent ID: 8280292

Claim:
A method for creating a dry ink print; comprising: forming a dry ink image having a colored dry ink on a substrate and a clear dry ink over the colored dry ink and the substrate; and passing the substrate and the dry ink image through a nip the between a first moving surface that contacts a side of the receiver having the dry ink image and second moving surface that contacts an opposite side of the receiver and operating at least one of the first moving surface and the second moving surface to create a first shear in the colored dry ink causing a first smearing of the dry ink against the substrate beginning at a first edge of the dry ink image that enters the nip and that creates a second shear in the dry toner image after a length of the dry ink image has passed through the nip causing a second smearing of the dry ink against the substrate; wherein there is a first laydown of dry ink within the length of the dry ink image and a second laydown of dry ink after the length of the dry ink image and wherein the first laydown is decreased from the second laydown so that the first smearing is more consistent with the second smearing.