Dell All-in-One Wireless Printer V305w – multifunction (printer / copier / scanner)
The Dell V305W is an inexpensive all-in-one (AIO) printer that also connects wirelessly to your home network. The V305W is characterized by subtle, curvy lines and an elegant combination of glossy white and matte black panels. The whole unit looks like it was carved from a single block of plastic.
The control panel of this cheap printer is very basic. Seven recessed buttons sit beneath the two-line LCD display of Dell all in one wireless printer. This helps in navigate menus and operate various features on the device. Directly underneath the two-ink cartridge bay, you’ll find two ports for memory cards (SD, MS, xD, MMC, CF, MD) and a PictBridge USB port for printing direct from a compatible digital camera. The CD that comes with the V305W has preinstalled drivers that help you configure your network settings, but the printer itself does the rest of the work pairing the two devices together. The entire process took less than 10 minutes from start to finish.
The V305 uses two separate cartridges for tricolor and black/white inks, and it ships with standard-capacity cartridges in the box.
Compared with other printers within the same category and price range, the Dell V305w represents the best and worst of the pack. It prints black text at an impressive rate of 7.82 pages per minute (PPM), almost double the speed of the pricier Kodak ESP5. The Dell can also scan a full page of black-and-white graphics faster than the competitors
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Ink cartridge Description
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application claims the benefit under 35 U.S.C. .sctn.119(a) of Korean Patent Application No. 2004-07970 filed Feb. 6, 2004, in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an ink cartridge. In particular, the present invention relates to a color ink cartridge preferably using three colors, such as cyan, magenta and yellow, and having discrete ink feeding passages for the ink of respective colors.
2. Description of the Related Art
In general, an ink-jet printer prints out a desired image by spraying ink onto printing paper. The ink-jet printer is provided with an ink cartridge as a consumable article for storing a predetermined quantity of ink. Representative prior art examples of ink-jet printers have been disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,926,195, 6,260,961 and 6,293,664, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a part of a prior art ink cartridge is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,260,961. As shown, the ink cartridge comprises a body 70 and a plurality of ink compartments 84, 86, 88 defined in the body 70 by a plurality of partitioning walls 80, 82. The ink chambers 84, 86, 88 form individual flow channels via a plug 66 fitted into a slide insert opening 76a. A Tape Automated Bonding (TAB) circuit 204 with a plurality of cavities 202 is mounted onto the plug 66. With the ink cartridge constructed as described above, ink feeding channels for feeding ink from the individual ink chambers 84, 86, 88 into the cavities 202 provided in the TAB circuit 204 are integrally formed in the body 70. The ink feeding channels are individually formed in the ink chambers 84, 86, 88, respectively.
However, the ink cartridge as described above has a limited ink feeding capability because it is difficult to form cavities for feeding ink to the TAB circuit 204. The area of the ink feeding ports is reduced when a wall body is formed for attaching a filter (not shown) due to a narrow physical space for such an arrangement. As such, inks cannot be smoothly fed from the individual ink chambers 84, 86, 88 to the cavities 202 at the time of high-speed printing. Consequently, droplets of ink fed to a print head (not shown) via the cavities 202 become irregular, thereby deteriorating the quality of image.
In addition, in order to form the ink feeding channels, it is necessary to seal the opening 76a formed in the front face of the ink cartridge via the plug 66, the plug 66 may be installed on the rear surface of the TAB circuit 204. Therefore, upon failing to precisely adjust the height of the plug 66 when attaching the plug 66, the plug 66 protrudes causing interference between the TAB circuit 204 and plug 66. In such a case, the electrical connection to the ink cartridge 50 may be out of order, thereby disturbing the normal printing operation and reducing the reliability of the product.