Patent ID: 8079661

Claim:
A print cradle assembly for a printhead cartridge, said print cradle assembly comprising: a docking bay molding for receiving the printhead cartridge; a media feed drive assembly positioned on the docking bay molding and configured to feed media through the print cradle assembly; a printed circuit board (PCB) with a printer controller for controlling the media feed drive assembly and operation of the cartridge; a heatshield mounted to the PCB for shielding the printer controller from electromagnetic interference (EMI) and user contact with the PCB; and, a printhead maintenance station for maintaining a printhead of the printhead cartridge in an operable condition, said maintenance station comprising: an elastically deformable maintenance belt having a contact surface for sealing engagement with an ink ejection face of said printhead, said contact surface being sloped with respect to said face; a conveyor mechanism for conveying said belt past said face, wherein said belt is supported by a drive spool and at least one other spool, said spools being mounted on a chassis, said chassis being reciprocally moveable between a first position in which part of said contact surface is sealingly engaged with said face, and a second position in which said contact surface is disengaged from said face; and, a cleaning station for removing ink from the contact surface when the contact surface is being moved from the first position to the second position.