摘要 |
A maintenance apparatus for a printhead, the apparatus having a seal for sealing against a surface of the printhead which has fluid ejection nozzles, the seal being configured to form a sealed space about the nozzles; and a porous material positioned within the seal to be in proximity of the nozzles in the sealed space, fluid egested by the nozzles contacting, and being transferred to, the porous material in the sealed space. |