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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2008
Christopher Hibbard, Balmain, AU;
Paul Ian Mackey, Balmain, AU;
Makomo Tsubono, Balmain, AU;
Saminda Jayatileke, Balmain, AU;
Kia Silverbrook, Balmain, AU;
Christopher Hibbard, Balmain, AU;
Paul Ian Mackey, Balmain, AU;
Makomo Tsubono, Balmain, AU;
Saminda Jayatileke, Balmain, AU;
Kia Silverbrook, Balmain, AU;
Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd, Balmain, New South Wales, AU;
Abstract
A printhead maintenance facility for an inkjet printer having a pagewidth printhead and a media path for feeding sheets of media substrate in a media feed direction wherein the pagewidth printhead has a nozzle face defining an elongate array of nozzles extending the printing width of the media substrate. The printhead maintenance facility has a wiper member extending the length of the nozzle array, a chassis for supporting the wiper member and a maintenance drive. The maintenance drive has a first actuator for moving the wiper member towards or away from the nozzle face, and a second actuator for rotating wiper member about an axis extending transverse to the media feed direction, wherein the first actuator and the second actuator are independently operable.