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printheads
   

The Printheads are high precision devices that place the ink on the media. The Printheads are designed with:

 
-Smart chip storing Printhead information.
-Ink inlet to receive ink from the Tubes.
-Nozzle plate with 512 Nozzles to deliver ink on to the media.
-Ink Type lockouts that avoid Printheads of the wrong type (Setup Printheads or Ink type) being installed in the Carriage.
-Color lockouts that will allow only one color to be inserted into a given slot.
 
 
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