Head maintenance system, printing system, and head maintenance method
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorKazumasa Hattori
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Abstract
Provided are a head maintenance system, a printing system, and a head maintenance method with which preferable washing of a nozzle surface can be realized and a damage to the nozzle surface can be suppressed. The head maintenance system includes: a wiping device (3) including a wiping sheet (10) for wiping a nozzle surface (52) of an ink jet head (50); a relative movement device (2, 3) that relatively moves the ink jet head and the wiping sheet; and a pressing device (18, 56) that presses the wiping sheet against the nozzle surface, in which the wiping device includes the wiping sheet having a value of linearity of compression in a range of 0.3 or more and less than 0.6, the linearity of compression being measured using a compression tester.
Claims11
A head maintenance system comprising:
- a wiping device including a wiping sheet for wiping a nozzle surface of an ink jet head;
- a relative movement device that relatively moves the ink jet head and the wiping sheet;
- and
- a pressing device that presses the wiping sheet against the nozzle surface,
- wherein the wiping device includes the wiping sheet having a value of linearity of compression in a range of 0.3 or more and less than 0.6, the linearity of compression being measured using a compression tester.
A printing system comprising:
- an ink jet head;
- and
- a maintenance device of the ink jet head,
- wherein the maintenance device includes
- a wiping sheet for wiping a nozzle surface of the ink jet head,
- a relative movement device that relatively moves the ink jet head and the wiping sheet, and
- a pressing device that presses the wiping sheet against the nozzle surface, and
- the wiping sheet has a value of linearity of compression in a range of 0.3 or more and less than 0.6, the linearity of compression being measured using a compression tester.
A head maintenance method comprising:
- pressing a wiping sheet for wiping a nozzle surface of an ink jet head against the nozzle surface;
- relatively moving the ink jet head and the wiping sheet;
- and
- wiping the nozzle surface by using the wiping sheet,
- wherein the wiping sheet having a value of linearity of compression in a range of 0.3 or more and less than 0.6 is applied, the linearity of compression being measured using a compression tester.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.