Patent ID: 6918654

Claim:
An ink distribution assembly for a page width ink jet printhead in the form of a number of elongate printhead chips having sets of ink inlet openings, each set receiving an ink of a particular color to be supplied to the printhead chips, the assembly comprising an elongate carrier having a printhead side, an opposed ink supply side an elongate recess on the printhead side dimensioned to receive the printhead chips end-to-end, feed openings to be in fluid communication with respective ink inlet openings of the printhead chips, a number of feed formations upstream of, and in fluid communication with respective sets of the feed openings, the printhead side defining at least one of the feed formations in fluid communication with the inlet openings of one set, from the printhead side to the ink supply side through the carrier, and ink supply passages interconnecting the feed formations and respective feed openings, the ink supply passages converging laterally towards the recess; and a cover assembly that is engageable with the carrier, the cover assembly being configured to enclose the feed formations and one of the carrier and the cover assembly defining ink supply openings in fluid communication with respective feed formations.