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Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

John Knaack

Kevin Ready Campion

Aaron Gerald Barclay

Dennis B Shell

Chad E Beery

Steven Lee Lidke

Larry William Gonier

Peter N Ladas

Mark Ervin Olsen

Kerry Ray Anderson

Robert Alan Schmidt

Randy Johnston

Daniel L Jankovich

Dale G Nordenstrom

Joe Kubes

Wade A Kragtorp

Rick Bigaouette

Pete Ladas

Pete Schmidt

Christian Vasbo

Richard J Bigaoutte

Peter E Malecha

Corrine Ruether

Ivor F Matz

An improved large-format inkjet printer that is capable of providing more efficient and higher quality printing on a variety of print media, including for example, paper, fabric, corrugated media, and plywood. The improved printer provides improvements to the platen assembly, rail assembly, service station assembly, printhead assembly and vacuum assembly to provide improved printing capability. In addition the printer provides a table assembly that can be integrated into the platen assembly to provide a secure and flush surface for supporting various types of print media.

Ink jet printer

An improved, large-format digital inkjet print engine that includes a group of co-operating print engine subassemblies that embody various novel elements that both discreetly and cumulatively advance the current art. The group of subassemblies and sensors cooperate to produce high quality graphic images using a plurality of different colors of ink and different types of print media at speeds several times faster than similar conventional inkjet printers. In addition, the use of cooperating elements permit the manufacture of complex, large-format digital color inkjet print engines that are less expensive to fabricated, operated, and serviced. The present invention finds use in large-format digital color printing and imaging, where successful repeatable printing requires precise placement of droplets of ink, toner or other marking material on a print medium such as paper, vinyl, film, or similar substrate.

Co-operating mechanical subassemblies for a scanning carriage, digital wide-format color inkjet print engine

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Burnsville, MN, United States of America

John Knaack