US 12,145,380 B2
Modular printer carriage
Bartomeu Gaya Pol, Sant Cugat del Valles (ES); Jeffrey L. Thielman, Sant Cugat del Valles (ES); and Oscar Orozco, Sant Cugat del Valles (ES)
Assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US)
Appl. No. 17/639,780
Filed by Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US)
PCT Filed Oct. 11, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/055938
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 2, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/071521, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 15, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0288959 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 25/34 (2006.01); B41J 2/175 (2006.01); B41J 1/24 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 25/34 (2013.01) [B41J 2/1752 (2013.01); B41J 1/243 (2013.01); B41J 1/246 (2013.01); B41J 2202/14 (2013.01); B41J 2202/20 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of manufacturing a printer carriage, the method comprising:
providing a first printhead carrier component to receive a plurality of first printheads according to a predefined printhead layout;
providing a frame component;
attaching the first printhead carrier component to the frame component,
wherein the first printhead carrier component and the frame component are separately manufactured, wherein the plurality of first printheads are disposed at a first distance from a print medium carrier when the first printhead carrier component is attached to the frame component;
removing the first printhead carrier component from the frame component; and
attaching a second printhead carrier component to the frame component, wherein a plurality of second printhead supported by the second printhead carrier component are disposed at a second distance from the print medium carrier when the second printhead carrier component is attached to the frame component, wherein the first distance is different from the second distance.