摘要 |
PURPOSE:To effect surely restoring operation, discharging adhered foreign materials such as adhered ink, bubbles, dust and the like near a discharging port together with ink by discharging ink from the discharging port, with a simple and small-sized constitution without employing any suction pump and the like. CONSTITUTION:An ink moving means (spiral member) 28, driven at a home position and the like to move ink in an ink supplying passage 26 toward an ink discharging port thereby discharging the ink from the discharging port 82, is provided in the ink supplying passage 26, connecting an ink reservoir 3 to the ink discharging unit of a recording head 2. |