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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2003
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael Long, Hilton, NY (US);
Gregory J. Garbacz, Rochester, NY (US);
Vincent E. Hamilton-Winbush, Rochester, NY (US);
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B08B 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B08B 7/00 ;
Abstract
A method of cleaning a printhead in an inkjet printer by removing organic debris deposits from the printhead, uses anyone of the liquid mixes of NaOCl (sodium hypochlorite) and H O (water), H O (hydrogen peroxide) and H O, Na S O (sodium hydrosulfite) and H O, CaCl O (calcium hypochlorite) and H O, or KMnO (potassium pernanganate) and H O on the debris deposits, to serve as a cleaning agent.