HEALTH EFFICIENCY INSTRUCTION FOR PRINTING OR COPYING DEVICES

摘要

PCT No. PCT/EP93/02806 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 20, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 20, 1995 PCT Filed Oct. 12, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO94/09410 PCT Pub. Date Apr. 28, 1994A thermofixiug device for fixing toner images on a strip-shaped or sheet-like recording substrate (17) of an electrophotographic printing or copying machine contains a thermoprinting fixing station (11, 12) and a heated preheating saddle (15) located upstream of the thermoprinting fixing station in the recording substrate running direction. The preheating saddle (15) is designed as a low temperature saddle with the largest possible constructional length, so that the temperature difference between recording substrate (17) end saddle surface (24) is as small as possible. The preheating saddle has, in the recording substrate running direction, a plurality of heating zones (21, 23). A control device controls the heating zones (21, 23) in such a manner that, along the preheating saddle (15), an approximately constent thermal energy flow occurs on the saddle surface (24) to the recording substrate (17). For matching the preheating saddle (15) to various recording substrate widths, the preheating saddle is subdivided, transversely to the recording substrate heating direction, into individually drivable transverse heating zones (30/1 to 30/3).