Patent ID: 7376378

Claim:
An improved release agent management (RAM) subsystem for an electrophotographic system comprising: a release agent reservoir for storing release agent; a metering roll at least partially submerged in the release agent stored in the release agent reservoir, the metering roll for delivering release agent from the release agent reservoir to a fusing station, the metering roll including: a metallic cylinder having sealed ends; an inductive heater located proximate one of the sealed ends of the metallic cylinder of the metering roll for inductively heating the metallic cylinder of the metering roll to transfer heat from the metallic cylinder of the metering roll to a layer of release agent on the metering roll as it rotates out of the release agent reservoir; and a sealed passageway being provided near a surface of the metering roll, the sealed passageway containing a liquid, the liquid being heated by the metallic cylinder at the sealed end of the metering roll proximate the inductive heater and the heated liquid migrating along the length of the sealed passageway to distribute heat along the metering roll.