Patent ID: 6854829

Claim:
A laser-actuatable inkjet printing system for printing an image from digital raster data onto a print medium, the printing system comprising: at least a printhead having a laser-penetrable chamber for holding ink therein, said chamber being defined by a plurality of walls, one of which is a laser-penetrable wall; a plurality of nozzles formed through a wall of the chamber for expelling droplets of ink from the chamber to the print medium; and a laser for producing a laser beam that is scanned across the chamber to selectively expel droplets of ink, in accordance with the digital raster data, through multiple adjacent nozzles simultaneously onto the print medium to form each pixel of the image, wherein said laser-penetrable wall has a chamfered edge, and wherein the laser beam is guided through the laser-penetrable wall and is deflected by the chamfered edge onto the ink within the nozzles.