Printhead assembly for a wallpaper printer
AssigneeSilverbrook Research Pty Ltd
InventorsKia Silverbrook, Tobin Allen King, Janette Faye Lee
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Abstract
The invention provides a printhead assembly for a printer which prints onto a moving web that follows a path. A full width printhead located across the path of the printer. The printhead is a color printhead which is at least as wide as the web. The printhead is supplied with a number of different inks which are remote from the printhead and which are supplied to the printhead through tubes. In some embodiments the printhead is retained by a rail which is located across the path and along which the printhead slides into and out of a printing position.
Claims16
A printhead assembly for a printer which prints onto a moving web that follows a path, the printhead assembly comprising:
- a full width printhead located across the path, the printhead comprising a plurality of inkjet nozzles having nozzle chambers and thermal bend actuators external to the nozzle chambers, each thermal bend actuator having an arm comprising a plurality of separate spaced apart elongate thermal actuator units, the thermal actuator units being configured to thermally expand upon heating thereby bending the associated arm so as to cause ink ejection from the nozzles;
- the printhead comprising a color printhead which is at least as wide as the web;
- the color printhead being supplied with a number of different colored inks.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.