Patent ID: 6059402
Filing Date: 2000-05-09
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
A configuration for ink supply and ink disposal for an ink printing head, comprising:a cassette housing to be inserted into a printer, said housing having a front wall, said front wall having coding openings and access openings formed therein;blocking inserts insertable in said coding openings for closing a given number of said coding openings and leaving at least one of said coding openings open;at least one coding pin of the printer for mechanical docking with said at least one of said coding openings, for coding corresponding to ink to be used;two identically constructed, flat, boxlike containers supported in said housing, said containers being insertable into and removable from said cassette housing, one of said containers intended for ink supply and the other of said containers intended for ink disposal, each of said containers having a top wall and a bottom wall, a seal accessible through one of said access openings, a flexible film liquid-tightly and gas-tightly secured in each of said containers, said film touching said top wall when said containers are entirely full and touching said bottom wall when said containers are empty, a well molded into said bottom wall, and two mutually spaced-apart electrodes fitted into said bottom wall, said electrodes disposed outside said well.