Patent ID: 7469990
Filing Date: 2008-12-30
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. An inkjet printer comprising: a printer body and a replaceable printhead cartridge, the printhead cartridge having a casing that supports a pagewidth printhead and a plurality of contacts for receiving print data; the printer body having a cradle for holding the printhead cartridge in an operative position such that the pagewidth printhead is adjacent a paper path defined by the printer body, the printer body having corresponding contacts for connection with the plurality of contacts on the printhead cartridge when the printhead cartridge is in the operative position, the corresponding contacts being resiliently compressible; wherein, during insertion, the cradle and the casing interact to form an over centre mechanism whereby, the printhead cartridge rotates against a bias provided by compression of the corresponding contacts prior to reaching a balance point, after which it is biased to rotate into the operative position as the corresponding contacts decompress.