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A hand held mobile phone device with integral internal print apparatus, the device including a mobile telephone unit for transmitting and receiving signals, processing means for processing the received and transmitted signals into a printable form, a printhead and ink distribution unit assembly atta

A hand held mobile phone device with integral internal print apparatus, the device including a mobile telephone unit for transmitting and receiving signals, processing means for processing the received and transmitted signals into a printable form, a printhead and ink distribution unit assembly attached to the processing means for printing out the processed signals onto a print media, and print media feed means to feed print media received from a supply external of the phone device to the printhead for printing of the processed signal information thereon. Preferably, the printhead is a page width ink jet printhead formed as a printhead chip using MEMS processing techniques. In a preferred form, the printer phone may be used with a separate print media dispensing device that includes a print media storage region having a dispensing outlet and a printer phone cradle to support the printer phone and align its print media inlet with the dispensing outlet of the print media storage region. A dispensing ejector mechanism is also provided that is operable to eject a predetermined quantity of print media through the dispensing outlet and into the printer phone print media inlet for engagement with the associated print media feed means located in the phone.

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1. A hand held mobile phone device with integral internal print apparatus, said device comprising: a mobile telephone unit for transmitting and receiving signals; processing means for processing said received and transmitted signals into a printable form; a printhead and ink distribution unit a

1. A hand held mobile phone device with integral internal print apparatus, said device comprising: a mobile telephone unit for transmitting and receiving signals; processing means for processing said received and transmitted signals into a printable form; a printhead and ink distribution unit assembly attached to said processing means for printing out said processed signals onto a print media; and print media feed means to feed print media received from a supply external of said phone device to said printhead for printing of said processed signal information thereon. 2. A device according to claim 1 adapted to use print media in the form of paper or card sheets. 3. A device according to claim 2 wherein said cards are substantially the size of an average business card. 4. A device according to claim 1 wherein said printhead comprises a single printhead unit of the width of said print media. 5. A device according to claim 1 wherein the printhead is formed by a semi-conductor fabrication technique. 6. A device according to claim 1 wherein said printhead and ink distribution unit assembly is detachable from said device. 7. A device according to claim 1 wherein said printhead is a full color printhead and the ink distribution unit assembly includes a series of ink supply reservoirs to supply separate colors to each of said colors of said printhead. 8. A device as claimed in claim 1 wherein said printhead is an ink jet printhead. 9. A device as claimed in claim 8 wherein said printhead is a printhead manufactured by a Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) processing technique. 10. A device as claimed in claim 8 wherein said printhead comprises an array of ink ejection nozzle arrangements wherein liquid is ejected from nozzle chambers by means of activation of a corresponding actuator attached to each of the nozzle arrangements. 11. A device according to claim 10 wherein said actuator is a thermal bend actuator. 12. A device as claimed in claim 1 wherein said ink distribution unit connected with said printhead includes a series of attached ink supply reservoirs and a first of said reservoirs is substantially larger than the others. 13. A device as claimed in any previous claim wherein said printhead and ink supply module includes some form of authentication means. 14. A device as claimed in claim 13 wherein the authentication device is an authentication chip. 15. A device as claimed in claim 1 including a camera facility. 16. A device as claimed in claim 15 wherein the camera facility can also operate as a video facility.