Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Jeffrey Dylan Frame

Thomas E McCue, Jr

Teressa L Roth

Rowdy Kelvin Webb

M Lynn Cheney

An inkjet printing system includes a platen adapted to support a print media, a printhead adapted to eject ink into a print zone between the printhead and the platen toward the print media and beyond a first edge of the print media to generate waste ink, a first absorber formed in the platen within the print zone such that the first absorber is adapted to extend beyond the first edge of the print media and absorb the waste ink ejected beyond the first edge of the print media, and a second absorber adapted to contact and absorb the waste ink from the first absorber, wherein the first absorber has a first capillary head and the second absorber has a second capillary head greater than the first capillary head.

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Los Altos, CA, United States of America

Jeffrey Dylan Frame