Printhead assembly and inkjet printer with the same
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorHyeong-ill Lee
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Abstract
A printhead assembly to eject ink onto an intermediate transfer medium to form an image and an inkjet printer with the same are provided. The printhead assembly has a plurality of printheads disposed around the intermediate transfer medium to eject ink thereto; a supporting body to connect the plural printheads together; a printhead reciprocating unit to reciprocate the supporting body in a major scanning direction; and a printhead adjusting unit to move the supporting body to adjust an interalignment in the major scanning direction of the plural printheads.
Claims40
A printhead assembly, comprising:
- a plurality of printheads disposed around an intermediate transfer medium to eject ink thereto, the intermediate transfer medium forming an image with ink ejection and transferring the formed image to a print medium;
- a supporting body to connect the plural printheads together;
- a printhead reciprocating unit to reciprocate the supporting body in a major scanning direction of the print medium;
- and
- a printhead adjusting unit to move the supporting body to adjust an interalignment of the plural printheads in the major scanning direction.
An inkjet printer, comprising:
- an intermediate transfer medium onto which an image is formed with ink ejection and which transfers the formed image to print medium;
- and
- a printhead assembly to eject ink onto the intermediate transfer medium to form the image,
- wherein the printhead assembly comprising:
- a plurality of printheads disposed around the intermediate transfer medium to eject the ink thereto,
- a supporting body to connect the plural printheads together,
- a printhead reciprocating unit to reciprocate the supporting body in a major scanning direction of the print medium, and
- a printhead adjusting unit to move the supporting body to adjust an interalignment of the plural printheads in the major scanning direction.
A printhead assembly, comprising:
- a plurality of printheads;
- a connecting member to connect the plurality of printheads;
- and
- a printhead adjusting unit to adjust an interalignment of the plural printheads.
A method of correcting image distortion in an inkjet printer apparatus, comprising:
- adjusting an interalignment of a plurality of printheads in a major scanning direction of a print medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.