Patent ID: 6938989

Claim:
An inkjet printhead assembly, including: a longitudinally extending inkjet printhead, including a plurality of longitudinally spaced apart power supply points and a plurality of longitudinally spaced apart ground supply points; at least one longitudinally extending power busbar; at least one longitudinally extending ground busbar; and at least one double-sided tape automated bonded (TAB) film configured to connect a plurality of said power supply points to said at least one power busbar and a plurality of said ground supply points to said at least one around busbar, said double-sided TAB film having power and ground interconnect means on a first side of the TAB film, the power and ground interconnect means connecting said busbars and their corresponding power and ground supply points; and control line interconnect means on the other side of the TAB film, the control line interconnect means being configured to provide the inkjet printhead with control data from a print controller, wherein the TAB film is configured such that it need only be connected to said printhead along one edge thereof.