Cleaning device for liquid jet head and liquid jet recording apparatus

Abstract

An alignment with a liquid jet head can easily be achieved, and surfaces of a jet plate and a guard member and an inside of an opening part of the guard member can be cleaned without injuring the jet plate even when side surfaces of the liquid jet head are not exposed, and a part of the jet plate is not exposed by the guard member. A cleaning device for an inkjet head includes a holder, and the holder includes a jet section which jets a cleaning liquid toward at least one of a nozzle plate and a nozzle guard, a contact part which makes contact with a surface of the nozzle guard provided with the opening part, and a protruding part which is inserted into the opening part in a non-contact state with the nozzle plate, and which guides the holder along a longitudinal direction of the opening part.

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