抄録
A printing-belt is widely used for a color printer. It is necessary to have a highly precise printing-belt feeding system for a high-quality color image. A printing-belt, usually wide and inelastic, has a complex behavior; the finite element method (FEM) is usually conducted for analyzing the complex behavior of the printing-belt. However, due to its complex behavior and the use of FEM, designing the optimal printing-belt feeding system consumes a vast amount of time. It is therefore necessary to have a simple model for determining the belt behavior. A simple model for determining the behavior of a printing-belt was used to estimate the characteristic of belt-walk. It was found that the model-simulated belt-walk is in good agreement with the experimental measurements. This agreement confirms the validity of the model for estimating belt characteristics more quickly and easily than by FEM. It is thus expected that it will speed up the design process for an optimal printing-belt feeding system.
