Patent ID: 8556611

Claim:
An apparatus for forming an ink jet print head, comprising: a press comprising a lower press cassette and an upper press plate; a mold release; a flexible top plate comprising at least one of glass, silicon, quartz, sapphire, and metal, wherein the one of glass, silicon, quartz, sapphire, and metal has a thickness of between about 25 μm and about 12,700 μm; and a print head jet stack subassembly comprising an uncured interstitial layer overlying and covering a plurality of piezoelectric elements, wherein the mold release and the flexible top plate are interposed between the uncured interstitial layer and the upper press plate, the mold release physically contacts the print head jet stack assembly only at the uncured interstitial layer, and the plurality of piezoelectric elements are not exposed through the uncured interstitial layer.