In an example of the disclosure, a cleaning system for a printhead includes a web of material movable in a web direction. The web has a first side for wiping a printhead face. The cleaning system includes a dispensing apparatus to dispense a liquid upon the web. The cleaning system includes a scraper element for scraping liquid from the web and includes a collector element with a trough. The collector element is to cause collection of liquid scraped from the web to collect in the trough. The cleaning system includes a pusher element to push against the second side of the web and thereby cause the first side of the web to wipe the printhead face.

A printer includes an ink head including a nozzle surface including nozzles, a cap including an end portion contactable with the nozzle surface, a suction device, a memory, and a controller. The memory stores a suction position, a free suction position, and a minute open position located between the suction position and the free suction position. The controller performs a suction process in which the cap is located at the suction position and ink is sucked from the nozzles, and a minute open position process in which the cap is moved toward a minute open position and movement of the cap is stopped with the cap located at a minute open position, after the suction process.

There is provided a maintenance apparatus for an image recording apparatus provided with a head having a nozzle configured to discharge a liquid. The maintenance apparatus includes: a foam configured to absorb the liquid discharged from the nozzle; an accommodating box which is opened upwardly and which accommodates the foam; and a plate configured to cover an upper part of the accommodating box. The plate has an opening configured to expose a part of an upper surface of the foam in a state that the plate is locked to the accommodating box.

There is provided a maintenance apparatus for an image recording apparatus provided with a head having a nozzle configured to discharge a liquid. The maintenance apparatus includes: a foam configured to absorb the liquid discharged from the nozzle; and an accommodating box which is opened upwardly and which accommodates the foam. An inner bottom surface of the accommodating box has a projection supporting a bottom surface of the foam so that the bottom surface of the foam is positioned separated from the inner bottom surface of the accommodating box.

A printing apparatus includes: a wiping member extending along a first axis; a head including a nozzle surface; and a movement mechanism configured to change a relative positional relationship between the wiping member and the head, and the printing apparatus executes a first wiping operation that changes a position of the head relative to the wiping member along a second axis intersecting the first axis, with the nozzle surface and a first wiping area of the wiping member in contact with each other, and a second wiping operation that changes the position of the head relative to the wiping member along the second axis, with the nozzle surface and a second wiping area of the wiping member in contact with each other, the second wiping area being located at a position different from a position of the first wiping area in a direction along the first axis.

A recording apparatus has a receiving member provided at a carriage having thereon a recording head and reciprocally moving, and receiving a liquid cleared away from a wiper for wiping and cleaning the recording head by a cleaner member. The cleaner member can assume, with respect to the carriage, a first position capable of cleaning the wiper, and a second position allowing the receiving member to receive the liquid cleared away from the wiper by the cleaner member.

A cleaning device includes: a cleaning member that comes into contact with a cleaning subject member and cleans the cleaning subject member using a liquid; and a liquid supply member that holds the liquid on a surface that is in contact with the cleaning member and supplies the held liquid to the cleaning member via the surface. The liquid supply member includes a plurality of holders that hold a different amount of liquid from each other in the surface.

There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including: a head including a nozzle surface; a wiper including a blade and a blade holder; a posture changer configured to change a posture of the blade to a first posture in which the blade makes contact with the nozzle surface and to a second posture which is different from the first posture; and a cleaner including a cleaning surface intersecting the nozzle surface. The blade in the first posture is configured to move in a first sliding direction relatively with respect to the head in a state in which the blade makes contact with the nozzle surface. The blade in the second posture is configured to move in a second sliding direction intersecting the first sliding direction relatively with respect to the cleaner in a state in which the blade makes contact with the cleaning surface.

There is provided a controller for an image recording device. The image recording device includes: a carriage capable of moving in a first direction; a head mounted on the carriage and configured to discharge a liquid from a nozzle; and a wiper capable of being impregnated with a cleaning liquid, a nozzle surface of the head including a first region not having the nozzle and a second region having the nozzle. The controller is configured to execute: a pressing-against processing of abutting the wiper on the first region in a state in which a speed of a relative movement in the first direction between the carriage and the wiper is a first speed; and a moving processing of moving the carriage and the wiper relative to each other in the first direction at a second speed faster than the first speed, while abutting the wiper on the second region.

There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus including: a head including a nozzle surface; a wiper including a blade and a blade holder; a posture changer configured to change a posture of the blade to a first posture in which the blade makes contact with the nozzle surface and to a second posture which is different from the first posture; and a cleaner including a cleaning surface intersecting the nozzle surface. The blade in the first posture is configured to move in a first sliding direction relatively with respect to the head in a state in which the blade makes contact with the nozzle surface. The blade in the second posture is configured to move in a second sliding direction intersecting the first sliding direction relatively with respect to the cleaner in a state in which the blade makes contact with the cleaning surface.