Patent ID: 7439995

Claim:
An apparatus for use in a printing application, comprising: a rotatably mounted acceptor element; a donor sheet configured to move perpendicularly relative to a longitudinal axis of the rotatably mounted acceptor element; a plurality of rotatably mounted contact rollers configured to position a portion of the donor sheet in close proximity to a portion of the rotatably mounted acceptor element; a laser imaging head configured to expose a portion of the donor sheet to radiation to pattern-wise transfer donor material from the donor sheet onto the acceptor element to form a patterned acceptor element, wherein the laser imaging head does not contact the donor sheet or the acceptor element; and a radiation source positioned adjacent the rotatably mounted acceptor element, which is configured to expose the patterned acceptor element to radiation, said apparatus further including a developer system positioned adjacent the rotatably mounted acceptor element for applying developer to the patterned acceptor element.