Magnetic recording head array with staggered head arrangement

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A magnetic recording head array for printing onto a transfer magnetic recording medium which prints magnetic material onto a medium such as paper includes staggered arrays of magnetic print heads. The heads are in diagonally staggered parallel arrays tilted away from the vertical. Each array in a group of several arrays is also staggered in the vertical direction as well as the longitudinal direction. Preferably the heads or other bistable elements, are wired in clusters with the heads or other elements in the cluster being coupled to the same actuator wires in a half-select type of wiring arrangement. The difference in the wiring of the elements will reside in the sense of the signal as …