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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2006
Filed:
May. 09, 2003
Joseph M. Torgerson, Philomath, OR (US);
Angela W. Bakkom, Corvallis, OR (US);
Mark H. Mackenzie, Corvallis, OR (US);
Simon Dodd, Corvallis, OR (US);
Joseph M. Torgerson, Philomath, OR (US);
Angela W. Bakkom, Corvallis, OR (US);
Mark H. MacKenzie, Corvallis, OR (US);
Simon Dodd, Corvallis, OR (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention includes as one embodiment an inkjet printhead including a plurality of ink drop generators configured to recieve a same color of ink and grouped into four axis groups, each of the four axis groups including a plurality of nozzles arranged along one of four axes, wherein the drop generators are staggered with respect to one another to decrease an effective pitch of the inkjet printhead to substantially one fourth of the pitch of a single one of the four axis groups.