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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2017
Mimaki Engineering Co., Ltd., Nagano, JP;
Tomonori Amari, Nagano, JP;
MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD., Nagano, JP;
Abstract
A smaller recording apparatus is provided, and includes a transport device that transports a print target medium using an endless transport belt placed around a plurality of rollers, an inkjet head that performs a recording on a medium on the endless transport belt, and a cleaning unit that cleans the endless transport belt. The cleaning unit includes a cleaner, making contact with the endless transport belt in a width direction thereof, so as to clean the endless transport belt with a cleaning liquid; a cleaning liquid tank, storing the cleaning liquid and includes at least a part of the cleaner; and a moving mechanism, supporting the cleaner and the cleaning liquid tank, and moving the cleaner in a horizontal direction between a contact position where the cleaner makes contact with the endless transport belt and a separated position where the cleaner is separated from the endless transport belt.