Patent ID: 6742867
Filing Date: 2004-06-01
Classification: B41C,B41J

Abstract:
A printing device comprising:a plurality of print heads, each said print head defining a printing area; a number of parallel rows of said print heads, said rows being spaced apart from each other in a print direction at a row spacing distance, ones of said print heads in each said row being spaced apart at a print head spacing distance and being offset from the ones of said print heads in other ones of said number of rows in a direction transverse to the print direction; a line height fixed by an extension of said printing area in the print direction; and a column width fixed by an extension of said printing area in a direction transverse to the print direction, said print head spacing distance corresponding to said column width times said number of rows, said row spacing distance corresponding to said line height times said number of rows increased by one.