Patent ID: 8888240

Claim:
A printing system comprising: an inkjet printhead including at least two inkjet nozzle arrays arranged along a print line, each inkjet nozzle array including a corresponding group of nozzles extending along the print line in a nozzle array direction, the nozzles being adapted to eject drops of ink onto a receiver media, wherein the inkjet nozzle arrays are separated from each other along the print line by one or more intervening non-printing regions; and a media guide having a contoured media guide surface for guiding the receiver media along a media path in a media advance direction past the inkjet printhead, the media guide surface being contoured such that it is closer to the inkjet printhead for portions of the print line corresponding to the inkjet nozzle arrays than it is for at least some portion of the print line corresponding to the one or more non-printing regions between the inkjet nozzle arrays.