| 摘要 |
There is disclosed an apparatus capable of securely cleaning foreign matters such as ink attached to a discharge port surface with good efficiency even with respect to a broad discharge port surface as in recording means of a full-line type and capable of preventing a discharge defect of the ink or deviation in a discharge direction to perform satisfactory recording. The apparatus includes: an absorbing roller, formed of a rotatable roller-shaped porous absorbing material, for wiping/removing foreign matters such as ink attached to a discharge port surface; and wipers formed of plate-shaped rubber-like elastic materials, for sweeping/removing the foreign matters such as the ink attached to the discharge port surface, and the absorbing roller is moved ahead, when both the absorbing roller and the wiper are brought into contact with the discharge port surface and moved in an arrangement direction of discharge ports along the discharge port surface.
|
