Ink jet painter having staggered nozzle array for color printing

Details Ink jet painter having staggered nozzle array for color printing Ink jet painter having staggered nozzle array for color printing

1996-06-28

1998-04-21

Le, N.

Incremental printing of symbolic information

Ink jet

Ejector mechanism

347 43, B41J 2145

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057423040

ABSTRACT:
A color ink jet printer including a print carriage movable along a carriage scan axis, a plurality of non-black color printing ink jet printheads supported by the print carriage and offset relative to each other so that their nozzle arrays are non-overlapping along the media scan axis, and a black printing ink jet printhead having a nozzle array that overlaps along the media axis with one of the nozzle arrays of the non-black color printing ink jet printheads, whereby as the carriage is scanned along the carriage scan axis the nozzle arrays of the non-black color printing ink jet printheads traverse non-overlapping print regions and the nozzle array of the black printing printhead traverses a print region that overlaps one of the non-overlapping print regions traversed by the nozzle arrays of the non-black color printing ink jet printheads.

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