A head cap configured to maintain a head configured to discharge a liquid from nozzles formed in a nozzle surface, the head cap includes a cap configured to cap the nozzle surface of the head, and a holder holding the cap, the holder being detachably attachable to one of a carriage mounting the head and a guide configured to guide the carriage.

The inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head, a conveyor belt, and an ink receiving part. The ink receiving part includes a discharge port and a conveyance rotator. The discharge port is placed at an end portion in a crossing direction crossing a sheet conveyance direction, and discharges ink received in flashing. The conveyance rotator is rotated around a rotating shaft extending in the crossing direction. The conveyance rotator has a conveyance structure for conveying ink in the ink receiving part in a carry-out direction directed toward the discharge port along an axial direction of the rotating shaft.

A leak mitigation device includes a planar portion and a tail portion. The planar portion has a first width. The tail portion has a proximal end and a distal end. The proximal end is attached to the planar portion and has a second width less than the first width. The planar portion and the tail portion comprise an absorbent material.

Disclosed herein are apparatus and methods for collection printing liquid e.g. ink. A printing liquid collection apparatus comprises a collection tray comprising a printing liquid droplet collection surface to capture printing liquid droplets produced during application of a printing liquid to a porous substrate; and a printing liquid removal element to receive the captured printing liquid from the collection tray and transport the captured printing liquid to a waste printing liquid container.

An example of a printing apparatus is disclosed. The printing apparatus comprises a carriage comprising a printhead to spit a printing fluid, the carriage to move over a service zone and a print zone. The printing apparatus also comprises a controller to determine a spit location within the service zone associate with the printing fluid; and spit, during the service operation, an amount of the printing fluid at the spit location of the service zone associated to the printing fluid.

Provided is a storage device including a container that includes an accommodation chamber accommodating fluid or powder, a flexible film that is bonded to the container and covers an opening portion of the accommodation chamber, and a tank holder to which the container having the film bonded thereto is fixed by a screw, in which the screw penetrates the film and fixes the container to the tank holder, and a part of a bonded portion between the film and the container surrounds a portion of the film through which the screw penetrates.

It is herein disclosed a waste printing fluid collection unit that may be part of a servicing station and/or a printing system, the waste printing fluid collection unit comprising; a collection reservoir for collecting the waste printing fluid, the collection reservoir having an end wall that separates the collection reservoir from ambient air; and a wick extending from the end wall towards the reservoir; wherein the wick is on a first side, connected to the end wall and, on a second side extends into the reservoir to contact the waste printing fluid.

A printing apparatus is disclosed. The printing apparatus comprises a printhead and a controller. The printhead is to spit a printing fluid comprising a first mode and a second mode. The first mode corresponds to using a first energy level to spit the printing fluid and the second mode corresponds to using a second energy level to spit the printing fluid. The second energy level comprises a higher energy level than the first energy level. The controller is to determine a decap risk zone associated with the printing fluid, determine in view of the decap risk zone a decap location, and instruct the printhead to spit using the second mode at the decap location.

A liquid absorber includes a case, a first liquid absorption member stored in the case, and a second liquid absorption member stored in the case. The case has an opening. The first liquid absorption member absorbs a portion of a liquid. The second liquid absorption member absorbs a portion of the liquid. The second liquid absorption member is disposed adjacent to the first liquid absorption member and is closer to the opening than is the first liquid absorption member. The first liquid absorption member and the second liquid absorption member include fiber substrates and a liquid-absorbent resin, the liquid-absorbent resin being liquid-absorbent resin particles.

Provided is an inkjet recording apparatus that reduces situations in which the recording medium becomes stained during flushing. A conveyor belt of the inkjet recording apparatus has a plurality of opening portion groups in a conveying direction of the recording medium in which opening portions for allowing ink ejected from each of the nozzles of the recording head to pass during the flushing are arranged in a belt width direction perpendicular to the conveying direction of the recording medium. A control unit determines a pattern of a plurality of opening portion groups used in flushing in one cycle of the conveyor belt according to the size of the recording medium, and causes the recording medium to be supplied from a recording medium supply unit between the opening portion groups arranged in the conveying direction in the pattern on the conveyor belt.