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US 2003/0112308 A1Published application
Pagewidth inkjet printheads with defect tables
AssigneeSilverbrook Research Pty Ltd
InventorsKia Silverbrook, Paul Lapstun
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Abstract
A printhead assembly includes a pair of matched printheads, each printhead including a plurality of inkjet nozzles constructed using microelectromechanical techniques. The printheads are matched so that no paired nozzles of the pair of printheads are both defective. Encoded data relating to a defect list is associated with the printheads, the defect list providing data relating to which nozzle of each pair of matched nozzles of the pair of printheads is to be used.
Claims10
Drying equipment for a printer for aiding drying of a printed image on a web of print
- media, the equipment including
- a feed path along which the web of print media containing the printed image is fed
- after printing of the image on the print media;
- a drive means for driving the web along the feed path at a predetermined rate;
- and
- a supply means for supplying drying fluid over at least one surface of the web along the extent of the feed path.
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