B41J 2/1714
Conditioning of the outside of ink supply systems
Official title: {Conditioning of the outside of ink supply systems, e.g. inkjet collector cleaning, ink mist removal (B41J2/08, B41J2/16517, B41J2/18 take precedence)}
B41J2/1714 (Conditioning of the outside of ink supply systems) appears on 530 US grants and 606 published applications in this corpus.
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