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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2022
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Katsunori Nishida, Nagoya, JP;
Naoki Mizuno, Takahama, JP;
Shunsuke Okai, Nagoya, JP;
Eiji Tanaka, Toki, JP;
BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
An inkjet printer has a nozzle surface on a head and having nozzle rows each having nozzles, manifolds suppling ink to the nozzles in each nozzle row, supply flow paths connected to the manifold and suppling the ink, circulation flow paths connected to the manifold and circulating the ink from the manifold to which the ink is supplied through the supply flow path, a cap to be in contact with the nozzle surface on an outside of the nozzles respectively in two nozzle rows, and a controller executing circulation processing where circulation of the ink through one supply flow path, one manifold and one circulation flow path is performed, and circulation of the ink through another supply flow path, another manifold and another circulation flow path is not performed, in a state where the ink or a cleaning liquid supplied in the cap is contacted with the nozzle surface.