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Fabricating an inkjet printhead with grouped nozzles

  • US 7,219,427 B2
  • Filed: 08/08/2003
  • Issued: 05/22/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/16/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of construction of an inkjet printhead that prints a plurality of inks, said method comprising:

  • forming a single inkjet nozzle arrangement so as to have a single ink ejection nozzle and an actuator element for the ejection of ink from the single ink ejection nozzle; and

    replicating the single inkjet nozzle arrangement by performing a series of translations and rotations of said single inkjet nozzle arrangement to form an array of the inkjet nozzles thereby constructing said inkjet print head;

    said replicating step including;

    forming a plurality of pods of nozzles, each pod consisting of a plurality of contiguous nozzles, the nozzles of a pod configured to print the same ink.

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