An ink-jet head having a passage unit including pressure chambers each having
one end coupled to a nozzle and the other end to be coupled to an ink supply source.
The pressure chambers are arranged along a plane to neighbor each other. The ink-jet
head further includes actuator units attached to a surface of the passage unit
for changing the volume of each pressure chamber. Each actuator unit includes pressure
generation portions respectively corresponding to pressure chambers, and is formed
to extend over the pressure chambers. The actuator units are arranged along the
longitudinal direction of the passage unit so that each neighboring actuator units
partially overlap each other in the lateral direction of the passage unit. Each
actuator unit has a basic region where many pressure generation portions are formed
in a matrix, and an additional region neighboring the basic region in the lateral
direction of the passage unit. In the additional region, pressure generation portions
are formed to correspond to a gap portion between the pressure generation portions
in the basic region of the actuator unit and the pressure generation portions in
the basic region of another actuator unit neighboring that actuator unit.