摘要 |
A maintenance station apparatus for an ink jet printhead is provided. The printhead includes a plurality of jetting modules disposed side by side in a row and inclined relative to a direction of print media motion, each of the plurality of jetting modules including a nozzle face, each nozzle face including a first nozzle array configured to eject a first liquid and a second nozzle array configured to eject a second liquid. The maintenance station apparatus includes a wiping unit including a first wiper, a second wiper, and a wiper moving mechanism, the first wiper being associated with the first nozzle array of each jetting module and the second wiper being associated with the second nozzle array of each jetting module, and a capping unit including a plurality of cap pairs corresponding to the plurality of jetting modules, one cap of each cap pair being associated with the first nozzle array of the corresponding jetting module, the other cap of the cap pair being associated with the second nozzle array of the corresponding jetting module.
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