Seiko Epson Corporation

Rodolfo Cazzaniga

Sandro Robustelli

Kentaro Tanabe

An inkjet printer includes an endless transporting belt that transports a medium in a transport direction by supporting the medium and rotating, an ejecting unit that ejects ink onto the medium supported by the transporting belt, and a cleaning unit including a first brush for cleaning the transporting belt, a first cleaning liquid tank that stores cleaning liquid with which the first brush is impregnated, a second brush for cleaning the transporting belt, and a second cleaning liquid tank that stores the cleaning liquid with which the second brush is impregnated. The second cleaning liquid tank is disposed at a position lower than the first cleaning liquid tank in the vertical direction, and the cleaning unit is configured so that the cleaning liquid discharged from the first cleaning liquid tank is supplied to the second cleaning liquid tank.

Inkjet printer with dual cleaning units

A printer includes a main frame, a first roller, a second roller, and a transport belt wound around the first roller and the second roller and transporting a medium by rotating while supporting the medium, and a printing unit that performs printing on the medium. The main frame is configured of a plurality of blocks that are separably connected with one another in the transport direction. At least one of the first roller and the second roller is defined as a roller to be consolidated, the first roller, the second roller, and the transport belt are configured to be consolidated in a consolidation block, which is a block for consolidation, by moving the roller to be consolidated from a deployment block, which is a block where the roller to be consolidated is fixed when the medium is transported, to the consolidation block.

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