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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2013
Filed:
May. 16, 2011
Eric Johnson, San Diego, CA (US);
Jinsong Gao, San Diego, CA (US);
Andy Bound, San Diego, CA (US);
Thomas Roetker, San Diego, CA (US);
Victor Escobedo, San Diego, CA (US);
Eric Johnson, San Diego, CA (US);
Jinsong Gao, San Diego, CA (US);
Andy Bound, San Diego, CA (US);
Thomas Roetker, San Diego, CA (US);
Victor Escobedo, San Diego, CA (US);
Zamtec Limited, Dublin, IE;
Abstract
A system for reducing ink color mixing effects in a printer is provided having a printhead having multiple ink color channels mounted to a housing of the printer at a first level, and a plurality of ink supply cartridges mounted to the printer housing so as to be fluidically connected to the printhead and stacked in an array having a plurality of rows defining a plurality of levels which are lower than the first level. The plurality of ink supply cartridges include at least one black ink supply cartridge which supplies black colored ink to a black ink color channel of the printhead. The black ink supply cartridge is disposed at the lowest level defined by the array.