Wet-wipe maintenance device for a full-width ink-jet printer

Details Wet-wipe maintenance device for a full-width ink-jet printer Wet-wipe maintenance device for a full-width ink-jet printer

1995-02-21

1998-08-11

Yockey, David F.

Incremental printing of symbolic information

Ink jet

Ejector mechanism

347 28, 347 30, B41J 2165

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057933901

ABSTRACT:
A maintenance device includes a shuttle which is adapted to travel on a track through a fixed path generally parallel to the array. Mounted on the shuttle are an application, which includes a wicking member, for applying a cleaning liquid to the nozzle openings and a vacuum device for applying suction to the nozzle openings. A spacing member on the shuttle spaces the shuttle from the head to form a meniscus of the cleaning liquid against the nozzle openings of the printhead. The maintenance device is used in a cleaning method wherein a vacuum force is applied to the nozzle openings while moving the shuttle in a first direction, the surface is wetted by the cleaning liquid while moving the shuttle in a second direction, and the a vacuum force is again applied to the nozzle openings after the wetting while moving the shuttle in the second direction.

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