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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2002
Filed:
May. 15, 2000
John F. Meyer, San Diego, CA (US);
Dennis Sonnenburg, San Diego, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An ink-jet printhead assembly including an elongated printhead carriage for supporting a plurality of printheads for movement across a path of travel of print media. The carriage includes a pair of ends and a region disposed equidistant the ends. The carriage supports a pair of staggered printhead arrays and each one of the pair of printhead arrays includes a plurality of spaced apart printheads. At least two of the plurality of printheads have an orifice plate having an edge disposed adjacent the central region, wherein the centrally disposed edge of each one of the orifice plates is collinear with an edge of each of the other centrally disposed orifice plates.