A hand held personal digital assistant (PDA) that has a body section
housing an information storage means, display means joined to the body
section by a hinge connection and a print engine with a printhead and a
print roll cartridge that has a cylindrical former defining ink
reservoirs for storing respective types of ink and bearing a wound length
of print media on which ink stored in the ink reservoirs is printed by
the printhead. The cylindrical former has a longitudinal axis and the
hinge connection has a hinge axis, the longitudinal axis and the hinge
axis being collinear for compact incorporation of the print roll
cartridge into a PDA.