Patent ID: 7184679

Claim:
In a reproduction apparatus including a fuser assembly having a pair of rollers in nip relation to apply heat and/or pressure to a receiver member bearing a marking particle image to fuse such marking particle image to such receiver member, a motor for rotating said pair of rollers to provide a drive in the roller nip to transport such receiver member through said fuser assembly, a mechanism for controlling the speed of the receiver member transported through said fuser assembly, said speed control mechanism comprising: an input device for storing parameters required for fusing particular types of receiver members under various desired conditions; a device for determining fuser control parameters, including overdrive effect, based on information from said input device and selection of a particular receiver member type and certain conditions; and a fuser assembly controller for setting fusing parameters based on the determination by said determining device, and for adjusting said motor for rotating said pair of rollers to set the transport speed of a receiver member through said fuser assembly to compensate for the determined overdrive effect.