Service station for ink jet printers

摘要

The invention concerns an ink jet service station having a removable foam member within an elastomeric ink jet head seal for capping an ink jet nozzle wherein the seal forms an air-sealed cavity for the nozzle and the foam member contacts the nozzle. The invention also concerns an ink jet service station having a multiplicity of recessed pad seats, a removable foam member for contacting an ink jet nozzle, and a spittoon reservoir for each pad seat connected to that pad seat by a channel.