A print device includes a processor, and a memory. The processor performs processes. The processes include a covering control processing controlling the cap into a covering state in which the cap covers the nozzle. The processes include supply processing supplying, after the covering control processing, the cleaning liquid to the cap from the supply flow path. The processes include hold processing holding, after the supply processing and in a state in which the cleaning liquid has soaked the nozzle face, the cleaning liquid in the cap. The processes include first determination processing determining, after the hold processing, whether a print request has been received. The processes include discharge processing discharging, in a case where a power on signal has been detected or in a case where the first determination processing has determined that the print request has been received, the cleaning liquid that has been held in the cap.

A fabric printing device includes a printing surface for holding a fabric to be printed and an ink nozzle array movable between a print position and a standby position. The ink nozzle array is located over the printing surface when in the print position and includes a plurality of ink nozzle groups. Each ink nozzle group is configured to spray a different color ink than an adjacent ink nozzle group. The fabric printing device also includes a recycle ink tray defining a plurality of partitioned ink pools, each ink pool associated with one of the plurality of ink nozzle groups. The ink nozzle array is positioned over the recycle ink tray when in the standby position such that substantially all of the ink sprayed from a particular ink nozzle group is received in a respective partitioned ink pool and isolated from ink in an adjacent partitioned ink pool.

Provided is a maintenance device that performs maintenance of a recording head with a nozzle face on which an opening of a nozzle for ink discharge is provided. The maintenance device includes a scraper that scrapes ink that adheres to the nozzle face, and an ink receiver that receives ejected ink that is ejected through the nozzle and scraped ink that is scraped off by the scraper. The ink receiver includes a first face and a second face that are each inclined with respect to a horizontal plane. The ink receiver receives the ejected ink at least on the first face of the first face and the second face, and receives the scraped ink on the second face. A flowability of ink on the second face is greater than a flowability of ink on the second face.

A waste liquid box management method sets a type of ink to be contained in a container, for a waste liquid box that includes a coupling portion coupled to a printer, the container containing ink discharged from the printer via the coupling portion, and a storage unit. The waste liquid box management method individually allocates different storage regions, in the storage unit, to a plurality of ink types, writes predetermined type specification data into a selected storage region, that is the storage region allocated to the ink type to be contained in the container, and inhibits writing to the storage region other than the selected storage region in a state in which data other than the type specification data is stored therein.

An inkjet recording apparatus includes a first ink tank that contains ink, a second ink tank that contains ink supplied from the first ink tank, a communication unit, having conductivity, communicates between the first ink tank and the second ink tank, an opening provided at one end of the communication unit connected to the second ink tank and opening to the second ink tank, an electrode portion provided in the second ink tank, of which a lower end position is located at or above a lower end position of the one end of the communication unit and at or below a highest position of the opening, and a detecting unit that detects an ink amount in the second ink tank in accordance with electrical properties between the electrode portion and the communication unit.

A print device includes a head, a cap, a suction portion, an absorption member, and a plate-shaped member. The head has an ejection surface. The ejection surface has a plurality of nozzles formed in the ejection surface and is directed in a predetermined direction. The cap has a frame-shaped wall portion and a suction opening. The suction portion is connected to the inside of the cap via the suction opening. The absorption member is arranged in a position surrounded by the frame-shaped wall portion and is configured to absorb liquid. The plate-shaped member is surrounded by the frame-shaped wall portion and is arranged in a position facing the absorption member. The plate-shaped member is extending along an inner end surface of the frame-shaped wall portion and has a hole.

A print device includes a head, a cap, a suction portion, an absorption member, and a plate-shaped member. The head has an ejection surface. The ejection surface has a plurality of nozzles formed in the ejection surface and is directed in a predetermined direction. The cap has a frame-shaped wall portion and a suction opening. The suction portion is connected to the inside of the cap via the suction opening. The absorption member is arranged in a position surrounded by the frame-shaped wall portion and is configured to absorb liquid. The plate-shaped member is arranged in a position surrounded by the frame-shaped wall portion and is extending along an inner end surface of the frame-shaped wall portion.

The liquid absorbing structure includes: a liquid absorber having a fiber and a water-absorbent resin capable of absorbing liquid; and a container having a supply port through which the liquid is supplied and a storage space in which the liquid absorber is stored. The liquid absorber contains a first liquid absorber and a second liquid absorber that are different in density of at least one of the fiber and the water-absorbent resin. The first liquid absorber and the second liquid absorber are disposed at different positions in the container.

Disclosed is an inkjet printing apparatus including a connection switching device in a housing having external suction ports and an internal suction port being disposed at an equal distance from the center of rotation of a switching section, the external suction ports being connectable to a plurality of lines, the internal suction port being connected to a suction path for sucking the interior of the housing. The connection switching device selectively connects any of the plurality of external suction ports to the suction device by rotating the switching section Consequently, when the switching section is connected to the internal suction port, the interior of the housing is sucked, whereby ink is sucked from all the inkjet nozzles.

A liquid absorber including a liquid absorbent body configured to include a small piece aggregate including a plurality of small pieces having a fiber base material containing a fiber and a water absorbent resin, and a container that includes a wall portion defining a storage space accommodating the liquid absorbent body, and a protrusion portion provided to protrude from the wall portion toward the storage space, in which when a minimum separation distance between a tip end of the protrusion portion and a structure different from the protrusion portion is L1, and an average value of a distance between farthest ends of the small piece is L2, 0<L1/L2≤1.80 is satisfied.