A stencil printer includes a stencil, a material applicator to apply material on the stencil, and a stencil wiper assembly to selectively wipe the stencil. The stencil wiper assembly includes has a quick-change material module having a supply roller to receive a roll of material, a take-up roller to receive used material, a drive to move the material across the stencil from the supply roller to the take-up roller, and a controllable tension device configured to vary a tension of the material when driving the material from the supply roller to the take-up roller.

In a method for cleaning cylinders included in a printing system, a roll of cleaning fabric is used. The roll (12) has a bobbin (14) coated with a water repellent, and the cleaning fabric (13) is wound onto the bobbin (14). The cleaning fabric (13) is impregnated with a cleaning composition containing water in a concentration of between 5 and 50 wt %.

A coating unit is located after a sheet-fed digital printer on a manufacturing line. As a response to a workpiece entering the coating unit from the printer, coating substance is dosed onto a plate cylinder, and said plate cylinder is rotated to transfer said coating substance onto the workpiece, which is then transferred further on the manufacturing line. As a response to a first time limit expiring after transferring the workpiece further without a subsequent workpiece entering the coating unit, the rotation of the plate cylinder is stopped.

A micro-fiber cleaning plate comprising: a micro-fiber sheet including fibers that extend outward from a surface of the microfiber sheet in a uniform direction; a leading edge locking strip connected to the micro-fiber sheet along a first edge; and a rear edge locking strip connected to the micro-fiber sheet along a second edge opposite the first edge, wherein the leading edge locking strip engages to the rear edge locking strip to secure the micro-fiber cleaning plate to a roll of an anilox print system.

The wiping device includes a wiping device 30 configured to wipe a nozzle surface 25 of a liquid ejection head 22 which ejects a liquid, an absorbing member 39 configured to absorb liquid, and a movement mechanism that moves the absorbing member 39 to a contact position Pc configured to contact the nozzle surface 25 and a separated position separate from the nozzle surface 25, wherein the absorbing member 39 includes an impregnated section 56 configured to contact the nozzle surface 25 in a state in which the liquid is impregnated and a wiping section 55 configured to wipe the nozzle surface 25 by moving relative to the liquid ejection head 22.

Disclosed is an inkjet recording apparatus including: a head module including an inkjet head; a wiping cloth for cleaning a head face of the inkjet head; a contact mechanism that causes the wiping cloth to contact and separate from the head face; a wiping cloth conveyor; and a hardware processor. When first and second cleaning operations are performed as two consecutive cleaning operations, an area of the wiping cloth to which ink adheres by the first cleaning operation and an area of the wiping cloth to which ink adheres by the second cleaning operation are first and second ink adhesion areas respectively, in a case where an ink adhesion amount by the first cleaning operation is small, the hardware processor increases an overlapping area of the first and second ink adhesion areas as compared with a case where the ink adhesion amount is large.