Patent ID: 8322841
Filing Date: 2012-12-04
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus comprising: a frame configured to support a plurality of components to form a printing system, the frame including a plurality of mounting locations; a plurality of printing system components including at least one printhead array and at least one first ink composition curing assembly, each printing system component in the plurality of printing system components being configured to mount to a mounting location on the frame; the printing apparatus being enabled to eject a first ink composition onto an image receiving surface and cure the first ink composition on the image receiving surface in response to a first set of printing system components being selected from the plurality of printing system components and mounted to the frame to form a printing apparatus that ejects and cures the first ink composition onto an image receiving surface, the first set of printing system components being less than all of the plurality of printing system components and including the at least one first ink composition curing assembly; and the printing apparatus being enabled to eject a second ink composition onto an image receiving surface in response to a second set of printing system components being selected from the plurality of printing system components and mounted to the frame to form a printing apparatus that ejects the second ink composition onto an image receiving surface and cannot eject the first ink composition onto the image receiving member, the second set of printing system components not being mounted to the frame when the first set of printing components are mounted to the frame and the second set of system components not including the at least one first ink composition curing assembly.