Printing apparatus and printing system
AssigneeFuji Corporation
InventorsYoshimune Yokoi, Ritsuo Hirukawa, Shoji Fukakusa, Naoki Matsuzaki
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Abstract
A printing apparatus including: a cleaning section including a cleaning member and configured to perform cleaning processing of a screen mask used in printing of a viscous fluid onto a print target; a cleaning member moving section configured to perform at least one of moving the cleaning member to and from a cleaning position and an exchange position, and unloading and loading of the cleaning member; and an exchange control section configured to control the cleaning member moving section to perform cleaning member exchange processing of exchanging the cleaning member.
Claims7
A printing apparatus comprising:
- a cleaning section including a cleaning member and configured to perform cleaning processing of a screen mask used in printing of a viscous fluid onto a print target;
- a cleaning member moving section configured to perform at least one of moving the cleaning member to and from a cleaning position and an exchange position, and unloading and loading of the cleaning member;
- a holder that holds an exchange-cleaning member;
- and
- an exchange control section configured to control the cleaning member moving section to perform cleaning member exchange processing of exchanging the cleaning member with the exchange-cleaning member.
A printing apparatus comprising:
- a cleaning section including a cleaning member and configured to perform cleaning processing of a screen mask used in printing of a viscous fluid onto a print target;
- a cleaning member moving section configured to perform at least one of moving the cleaning member to and from a cleaning position and an exchange position, and unloading and loading of the cleaning member;
- and
- an exchange control section configured to control the cleaning member moving section to perform cleaning member exchange processing of exchanging the cleaning member, wherein
- the cleaning member is a wiping sheet configured to clean by being wiped on the screen mask,
- the cleaning section includes a feeding section configured to feed the wiping sheet and a takeup section configured to take up the wiping sheet, and is configured to perform the cleaning processing using a portion of the wiping sheet fed by the feeding section, and to perform sheet feeing processing of using the feeding section to feed the portion of the wiping sheet used to perform the cleaning processing,
- further provided is a detection section configured to detect an exchange timing at which the wiping sheet is taken to have run out, and
- the exchange control section is configured to perform the cleaning member exchange processing when the detection section has detected the exchange timing.
A printing system comprising:
- a cleaning section including a cleaning member and configured to perform cleaning processing of a screen mask used in printing of a viscous fluid onto a print target;
- a cleaning member moving section configured to perform at least one of moving the cleaning member to and from a cleaning position and an exchange position, and unloading and loading of the cleaning member;
- an exchange control section configured to control the cleaning member moving section to perform cleaning member exchange processing of exchanging the cleaning member;
- and
- an accommodation apparatus configured to accommodate an exchange-use cleaning member and to enable unloading and loading of the cleaning member to and from the printing apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.