Patent ID: 7151557

Claim:
A collimation assembly for a multi-beamed scanner including a printhead housing and having a scanning element for scanning a light beam and a pre-scan assembly for transmitting a received light beam to said scanning element, said collimation assembly comprising: a collimation housing mounted to said printhead housing; at least two adjustment brackets supported on said collimation housing; a light source supported by each of said adjustment brackets, each said light source defining a respective light beam axis; at least two collimation lenses, each collimation lens supported in said collimation housing and intersected by one of said light beam axes; each of said adjustment brackets being movable relative to said collimation housing to locate each of said light beam axes at a predetermined position relative to a respective collimation lens; and each said light source being supported by a corresponding one of said adjustment brackets for movement in a direction parallel to said light beam axes.