Patent attributes
A printer is provided having an elongate carrier spaced from a platen, ejection nozzle integrated circuits carried by the carrier to define an elongate printing zone between the carrier and platen, controllers carried by the carrier each configured to control a group of the integrated circuits, capping devices carried by the carrier to be reciprocally displaceable to cap respective integrated circuits, and an elongate camshaft positioned along the elongate carrier and along the capping devices and a translating member interconnecting the elongate camshaft and the capping devices, so that rotational movement of the elongate camshaft driven by a motor results in the reciprocal movement of the capping devices between the capping and non-capping positions.
