Patent ID: 7690754

Claim:
An inkjet printer comprising: a front head unit having (i) an outside surface which is to be opposed to a print media, (ii) a plurality of nozzles which open in said outside surface; a carriage which carries said front head unit and is reciprocatable in a primary scanning direction; an ink supplier which supplies the ink from an ink storage container toward said nozzles therethrough; a driver circuit which outputs a drive signal for driving said front head unit; a heat dissipater which dissipates heat generated by said driver circuit; a bubble retainer which retains a bubble generated in said ink supplier; and a bubble discharger which discharges the bubble from said bubble retainer, wherein said heat dissipater, said bubble discharger and said front head unit are mounted on said carriage, and are arranged in said primary scanning direction; wherein said carriage has two side portions which are opposed to each other in said primary scanning direction, wherein said front head unit is located between said two side portions of said carriage, and wherein said heat dissipater is located in the vicinity of one of said two side portions while said bubble discharger is located in the vicinity of the other of said two side portions.