Painting system

A painting system comprising:

• a painting robot for painting a painting area of a vehicle, wherein the painting robot comprises:
• a painting head unit provided with a painting head comprising a plurality of nozzles for ejecting paint droplets;
• a robot arm which has the painting head unit mounted on a tip end thereof and causes the painting head unit to move to a desired position;
• and
• a control unit comprising:
• a head control unit for controlling operation of the painting head, and
• a robot arm control unit for controlling operation of the robot arm;
• a wiping means is configured to wipe a nozzle-forming face on which the nozzles open, and
• wherein the robot arm control unit controls operation of the robot arm so that the nozzle-forming face is wiped by the wiping means at least before each vehicle is painted.