Inkjet recording apparatus
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorKaoru Horie
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Abstract
In a cleaning unit that cleans nozzles are provided a support base, a wiping portion that moves together with the support base to clean an ink on the nozzles, and a suction nozzle that is provided on the support base through a spring behind the wiping portion with respect to a traveling direction along which a cleaning operation is performed and sucks the ink subjected to cleaning. The wiping portion is moved by a set pin to adjust a gap between the wiping portion and a recording head, and contact cleaning or non-contact cleaning is selected at the time of cleaning. As a result, there can be provided an inkjet recording apparatus that can prevent an ink-repellant coating from being abraded, stably eject the ink, and record a high-quality image.
Claims17
An inkjet recording apparatus comprising:
- a recording head having a nozzle plate on which a nozzle string formed of a plurality of nozzles that eject inks onto a recording medium is arranged;
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- a wiper that cleans a surface of the nozzle plate,
- wherein one of a first cleaning mode in which the wiper comes into contact with the nozzle plate, and a second cleaning mode in which the wiper does not come into contact with the nozzle plate is selected at the time of cleaning, and the wiper relatively moves with respect to the nozzle string to perform the cleaning.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.