Patent ID: 8042807

Claim:
A transport system for cut sheet media, comprising: a first and second cylinder arranged so as to form a nip; a support subsystem to transport edges of cut sheets having at least one image into and out of the nip; and an array of contact points of one of brushes, belts with points, punctured metal or starwheels, on each cylinder extending from a surface of the cylinder, the array of contact points to contact the cut sheets, such that only the array of contact points contact the cut sheets; wherein: the first and second cylinders are disposed such that the surface of the first cylinder is separated from the surface of the second cylinder by a distance greater than a sum of a distance from the surface of the first cylinder to a distal end of a longest contact point of the first cylinder and a distance from the surface of the second cylinder to a distal end of a longest contact point of the second cylinder when the contact points contact the cut sheets; and for each of the first and second cylinders, a combined surface area of distal ends of the contact points is less than a surface area of the surface of the cylinder.