Patent ID: 7360877

Claim:
An inkjet printer, comprising: an inkjet head that ejects ink onto a recording medium; a movable ink tank having an ink introducing opening, an ink storing space in which ink introduced through the ink introducing opening is stored, and an ink discharging opening through which the ink of the ink storing space is supplied to the inkjet head; and a carriage supporting the inkjet head and the movable ink tank, the carriage reciprocating in a direction perpendicular to a feeding direction of the recording medium, wherein the movable ink tank includes a partition wall that divides the ink storing space into multiple rooms, the multiple rooms being arranged in a direction parallel to a reciprocating direction of the carriage, the multiple rooms being in fluid communication with each other only at upper portions thereof, the partition wall having a portion extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to the reciprocating direction of the carriage, and the upper portions of the multiple rooms being located opposite and distal from the inkjet head in the direction substantially perpendicular to the reciprocating direction of the carriage.