Patent ID: 7187470
Filing Date: 2007-03-06
Classification: B41J,G03G,G06F,G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. A print engine for a printer, the print engine including: a page width printhead, the printhead including an ink-ejecting means comprising a micro-electrical mechanical device defining an array of inkjet nozzles which provides photographic-quality and magazine-quality printing and a sealing means surrounding the ink-ejecting means; a smooth-surfaced transfer means having a discontinuity-free peripheral wall onto which ink ejected by the printhead is received to be transferred to a sheet of print media, the transfer means being arranged adjacent to the printhead; and a displacement means for displacing the printhead so that its sealing means is urged into abutment with a surface of the transfer means when the printhead is inoperative to inhibit evaporation of ink from the ink-ejecting means, the displacement means further being operable to draw the printhead into spaced relationship relative to the transfer means when printing is to be effected.