Compact printer with static page width printhead
AssigneeSilverbrook Research Pty Ltd
InventorsTobin Allen King, Kia Silverbrook
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Abstract
A printer includes an elongate support case defining a docking bay and having a personal computer interface connector protruding from a first end thereof; a print media cartridge configured to dock in the docking bay in a releasable manner; a page-width printhead assembly mounted across a second end of the support case opposite the first end, the page-width printhead assembly including a static ink ejection printhead for ejecting ink upon print media supplied from the print media cartridge; and a series of ink channel reservoirs including one reservoir for each color printed by the ink ejection printhead. The reservoirs are formed around the ink ejection printhead with feed channels progressively reducing in size to feed the printhead.
Claims6
A printer comprising:
- an elongate support case defining a docking bay and having a personal computer interface connector protruding from a first end thereof;
- a print media cartridge configured to dock in the docking bay in a releasable manner;
- a page-width printhead assembly mounted across a second end of the support case opposite the first end, the page-width printhead assembly including a static ink ejection printhead for ejecting ink upon print media supplied from the print media cartridge;
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- a series of ink channel reservoirs including one reservoir for each color printed by the ink ejection printhead, the reservoirs being formed around the ink ejection printhead with feed channels progressively reducing in size to feed the printhead.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.