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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2008
Christopher Hibbard, Balmain, AU;
Paul Ian Mackey, Balmain, AU;
Makomo Tsubono, Balmain, AU;
Nicholas Kenneth Abraham, Balmain, AU;
Kia Silverbrook, Balmain, AU;
Christopher Hibbard, Balmain, AU;
Paul Ian Mackey, Balmain, AU;
Makomo Tsubono, Balmain, AU;
Nicholas Kenneth Abraham, Balmain, AU;
Kia Silverbrook, Balmain, AU;
Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd, Balmain, New South Wales, AU;
Abstract
A printhead maintenance facility for an inkjet printer that has a printhead with the nozzle face defining an array of nozzles. The printhead maintenance facility has a wiper member for wiping the nozzle face, and a maintenance drive for moving the wiper member across the array of nozzles in the nozzle face. The wiper member has a plurality of parallel blades, each of the plurality of blades being dimensioned to wipe all the nozzles in a single traverse across the nozzle face.