are sent to the various drop ejectors according to the desired deposition pattern in the example of fig1 droplets 181 ejected from the first nozzle array 120 are larger than droplets 182 ejected from the second nozzle array 130 due to the larger nozzle opening area typically other aspects of the drop forming mechanisms not shown associated respectively with nozzle arrays 120 and 130 are also sized differently in order to optimize the drop ejection process for the different sized drops during operation droplets of ink are deposited on a recording medium 20 fig2 shows a perspective view of a portion of a printhead 250 which is an example of an inkjet printhead 100 printhead 250 includes three printhead die 251 similar to printhead die 110 in fig1 each printhead die 251 containing two nozzle arrays 253 so that printhead 250 contains six nozzle arrays 253 altogether the six nozzle arrays 253 in this example can each be connected to separate ink sources not shown in fig2 such as cyan magenta yellow text black photo black and a colorless protective printing fluid each of the six nozzle arrays 253 is disposed along nozzle array direction 254 and the length of each nozzle array along the nozzle array direction 254 is typically on the order of 1 inch or less typical lengths of recording media are 6 inches for photographic prints 4 inches by 6 inches or 11 inches for paper 8 5 by 11 inches thus in order to print a full image a number of swaths are successively printed while moving printhead.