Recording apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorKazunori MORI
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Abstract
The apparatus includes a cleaning section that includes a cleaning material for cleaning a transportation belt, which transports a recording target medium, by contact with the transportation belt. The cleaning section is capable of switching between a contact state, in which the cleaning material is in contact with the transportation belt, and a non-contact state, in which the cleaning material is not in contact with the transportation belt. The cleaning section is capable of performing renewal operation. The renewal operation is operation of renewing a contact region of the cleaning material, that is, a region of contact with the transportation belt, from a region that has already been used to a region that has not been used yet.
Claims9
A recording apparatus, comprising:
- a recording section that performs recording on a recording target medium;
- a transportation belt that transports the recording target medium to a recording area where the recording is performed by the recording section;
- a cleaning section that includes a cleaning material for cleaning the transportation belt by contact with the transportation belt and is capable of switching between a contact state, in which the cleaning material is in contact with the transportation belt, and a non-contact state, in which the cleaning material is not in contact with the transportation belt, and is capable of performing renewal operation, the renewal operation being operation of renewing a contact region of the cleaning material from a region that has already been used to a region that has not been used yet, the contact region being a region of contact with the transportation belt;
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- a control section that controls the cleaning section,
- wherein the control section is capable of performing first cleaning control, in which the renewal operation is not performed during the cleaning of the transportation belt, and second cleaning control, in which the renewal operation is performed during the cleaning of the transportation belt.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.