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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2000
Karai P. Premnath, Rochester, NY (US);
Stephen D. Cipolla, Fairport, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for maintaining the concentration of cleaning solutions for cleaning print heads at an effective cleaning level throughout the life of a printer in which the print heads are installed include holding the cleaning fluid in one or more holding tanks. Contaminated cleaning solution in each of the one or more holding tanks is maintained at a suitable contamination/clean solution ratio by adding fresh solution and drawing off contaminated solution from one or more of the one or more holding tanks. The cleaning fluid is recirculated to and from one or more print head cleaning chambers and the one or more holding tanks.