PRINTER HAVING SKEWED TRANSFIX ROLLER TO REDUCE TORQUE DISTURBANCE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inkjet offset printer where higher image quality is obtained by reducing artifacts at the leading edge and the trailing edge of a medium sheet.SOLUTION: An inkjet offset printer includes an imaging drum and a transfix roller 19 skewed with respect to and defining a continuously applied or an uninterrupted nip with the imaging drum to reduce torque disturbances and media wrinkling issues. Acoustic and physical disturbances resulting from a sheet of recording medium 49 entering and leaving the nip 18 are reduced or eliminated.