Patent ID: 6513905
Filing Date: 2003-02-04
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
An ink jet printer configured to deposit droplets of ink onto a grid of pixel locations, said grid of pixel locations defining a vertical print resolution unit and a horizontal print resolution unit, said ink jet printer comprising:an ink jet print head comprising at least one vertically extending column of nozzles, wherein said column of nozzles is configured into five to eight horizontally separated sub-columns so as to reduce inter-nozzle cross talk during print operations, wherein the five to eight sub-columns are separated from one another such that the total width of said column is less than one horizontal print resolution unit, and wherein vertically adjacent nozzles of said column are situated in different ones of said sub-columns in such a way that no two vertically adjacent ink ejection nozzles within said column are in either the same sub-column or are in two horizontally adjacent sub-columns.