US Patent 7677687 Printer including overlapping elongate printheads

A printer includes a plurality of stationary printhead modules located across a print media transport path. In order to provide continuity of printheads across the transport path some, or all, of the printheads are slanted so that the ends of the printheads overlap. In one embodiment the printhead modules are each inserted into ink reservoirs that are in turn attached to a mounting frame that lies across the print media transport path.