Patent ID: 7528972

Claim:
An inkjet pagewidth printer that comprises a chassis; a print media feed mechanism mounted on the chassis to feed print media along a feed path; a pair of opposed transfer rollers that are rotatably mounted on the chassis to contact the print media simultaneously on both sides of the print media as it moves along the feed path; a pair of pagewidth color inkjet printhead assemblies mounted on the chassis to eject ink on a respective one of the transfer rollers so that ink can be transferred simultaneously to both sides of the print media by the transfer rollers; a displacement mechanism operatively engaged with the transfer rollers to displace the transfer rollers out of biased engagement with the respective printheads, when the printheads are inoperative, and into engagement with the print media, when the printheads are operative, so as to transfer the ink on the transfer rollers to the print media; a cleaning station operatively positioned with respect to the transfer rollers to clean remaining ink from the transfer rollers subsequent to the ink being transferred from the transfer rollers to the print media; control circuitry to control operation of the printer; and a memory for storing data related to images and text to be printed.