Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Yoshiya Kusunoki

Yu Sasaki

An inkjet recording apparatus includes a conveying belt and a control portion. The conveying belt includes a flushing area formed with an opening. During sheet conveyance, the control portion causes a recording head to perform flushing processing in which ink is discharged toward the opening of the flushing area not overlapping with the sheet. The control portion causes the recording head to perform, before discharging the ink, meniscus oscillation processing in which a meniscus of ink in each nozzle of the recording head is caused to oscillate. When causing the nozzle to perform the meniscus oscillation processing before the flushing processing, the control portion sets a number of oscillations of the meniscus oscillation processing based on an amount of time that has elapsed before the flushing processing to be performed this time since the flushing processing performed last time by the nozzle that performs the meniscus oscillation processing this time.

Inkjet recording apparatus capable of suppressing ink smudge on conveying belt

A head cap covers an inkjet type recording head. The head cap includes a cap housing and a cap cover. The cap housing has a liquid storage space opened upward. The cap cover is provided along an open end of the cap housing. The cap cover has an opening through which the recording head enters and leaves.

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Osaka, Japan

Yoshiya Kusunoki