Abstract: The device for the filling of the ink supply system in an inkjet printer with a nozzle printhead, and ink storage container, and a printhead tank connected to the ink storage container or connectable to the ink storage container disposed on the printhead carriage, furthermore with a cleaning station, wherein the nozzle printhead is sealingly movable to the cleaning station and an exhaust pump connected to the cleaning station, resolves the object of the present invention by having the nozzle printhead with the nozzle inputs placeable at the cleaning station and the nozzle inputs connected to a first nozzle printhead tank part chamber, wherein the first nozzle printhead tank part chamber is separated from a second printhead tank part chamber adjoining to the first printhead tank part chamber.

Abstract: The device for the filling of the ink supply system in an inkjet printer with a nozzle printhead, and ink storage container, and a printhead tank connected to the ink storage container or connectable to the ink storage container disposed on the printhead carriage, furthermore with a cleaning station, wherein the nozzle printhead is sealingly movable to the cleaning station and an exhaust pump connected to the cleaning station, resolves the object of the present invention by having the nozzle printhead with the nozzle inputs placeable at the cleaning station and the nozzle inputs connected to a first nozzle printhead tank part chamber, wherein the first nozzle printhead tank part chamber is separated from a second printhead tank part chamber adjoining to the first printhead tank part chamber.

Abstract: A device for positioning a printing head of a printer in response to recording carrier/substrate thickness includes a reflex sensor arranged in a protected space formed between a head-carrying carriage and an opposing printing head housing surface. During printer initialization or upon insertion of a recording carrier/substrate having a thickness greater than a predetermined thickness, the printing head is slightly displaced with respect to the carriage as a result of brief contact of the printing head print surface with the recording carrier that is supported on a printing abutment. The reflex sensor measures the displacement travel distance of the printing head and generates an input signal to an evaluation circuit. The evaluation circuit generates an output control signal to a carriage displacement drive in response to the measured displacement of the print head to automatically set the distance between the printing head and the recording carrier or printing abutment.

Abstract: An information processing mechanism having a combined printing and reading head wherein the reading head is maintained as close as possible to the printing head by providing means for deflecting light entering the reading head so that the organization of the reading head may be arranged with a reading window thereof through which light enters the reading head arranged adjacent the printing head between a printing needle guide member and a magnet carrier of the printing head, the magnet carrier having a wider dimension than the printing needle guide member.