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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2013
W. Charles Kasiske, Jr., Webster, NY (US);
Michael Joseph Piatt, Dayton, OH (US);
Christopher M. Muir, Rochester, NY (US);
John Leonard Hryhorenko, Webster, NY (US);
W. Charles Kasiske, Jr., Webster, NY (US);
Michael Joseph Piatt, Dayton, OH (US);
Christopher M. Muir, Rochester, NY (US);
John Leonard Hryhorenko, Webster, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A printing system including a staggered inkjet printhead including at least two inkjet nozzle arrays arranged along first and second print lines in an alternating pattern, wherein the inkjet nozzle arrays along a particular print line alternate with non-printing regions. A media guide including first and second media guide surfaces is used for guiding receiver media along a media path past the first and second print lines of the inkjet printhead. At least one of the media guide surfaces is contoured such that it is closer to the staggered inkjet printhead along portions of the associated print line that correspond to the associated inkjet nozzle arrays than it is for at least some portion of the associated print line that corresponds to the non-printing regions.