Patent ID: 7467852

Claim:
An inkjet printer comprising: a printer body; a printhead cartridge for installation in the printer body, the printhead cartridge having a pagewidth inkjet printhead structure with an array of nozzles; a plurality of ink cartridges for supplying ink, the ink cartridge having a docking face for engagement with a complementary face to supply the printhead cartridge with ink, the complementary face being partially provided by the printhead cartridge and partially provided by the printer body; wherein, each of the ink cartridges connecting to respective ink inlets, a plurality of resilient connectors form part of the fluid paths to the nozzles from each of the ink inlets, the ink inlets and the resilient connectors being mounted in a docking frame for receiving the ink cartridges; such that, longitudinal expansion and contraction of the pagewidth printhead structure relative to the docking frame is accommodated by the resilient connectors.