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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2010
Hiroshi Inoue, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Hiroshi Inoue, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A head cleaning method of wiping and cleaning a nozzle surface of a head with a band-shaped liquid absorbing body by, while pressing and abutting a pressing member on which the liquid absorbing body that travels is wrapped against the nozzle surface of the head, sliding the pressing member over the nozzle surface of the head, includes: a first cleaning step of wiping and cleaning the nozzle surface of the head with a non-wet region of the liquid absorbing body; a wet region forming step of forming a wet region on the liquid absorbing body; and a second cleaning step of wiping and cleaning the nozzle surface of the head with the wet region of the liquid absorbing body.
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