An inkjet printing apparatus includes: a printing head provided with ejection units in each of which ejection port arrays are formed, the ejection units being provided along a first direction; and a suction unit capable of contacting the ejection units and sucking the ejection units while moving relative to the ejection units. A contact region of the suction unit with each of the ejection units does not cover a corner portion among two corner portions of a second ejection unit located at opposite ends of a first end edge thereof on an upstream in a direction of movement, the corner portion being present at a position not overlapping with a second end edge of a first ejection unit on a downstream in the direction of movement when viewed from the direction of movement, the first ejection unit being provided upstream of the second ejection unit in the direction of movement.

A printer includes an ink head including a nozzle surface, a wiper to wipe the nozzle surface at a first position, a remover to remove an attachment upon contacting the wiper at a second position, an applier to apply a cleaning fluid to the wiper at a third position, a mover to move the wiper to the first to third positions, and a controller configured or programmed to include a first prior removal controller to bring the wiper into contact with the remover at the second position, an application controller to cause the applier to apply the cleaning fluid to the wiper at the third position after control has been exercised by the first prior removal controller, and a first wiping controller to wipe the nozzle surface with the wiper at the first position after control has been exercised by the application controller.

A printer includes a first ink head including first nozzles arranged in a sub-scanning direction and a first nozzle surface on which the first nozzles are disposed, a second ink head disposed at a side of the first ink head in a main scanning direction and including second nozzles arranged in the sub-scanning direction and disposed partially at a position identical to a position of a portion of the first nozzles in the sub-scanning direction and a second nozzle surface on which the second nozzles are disposed, a first wiper that wipes the first nozzle surface at a first wiping position, and a second wiper that wipes the second nozzle surface at a second wiping position.

A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a medium support portion that has a medium support surface for supporting a medium, a liquid ejecting unit that ejects liquid onto the medium supported on the medium support surface through a plurality of nozzles arranged in a nozzle surface, a first cleaning member that wipes the nozzle surface by moving relative to the liquid ejecting unit in a direction along the nozzle surface in a first maintenance operation of discharging the liquid through the nozzles for maintenance of the liquid ejecting unit, and a second cleaning member that removes foreign matters which have adhered to the nozzle surface by moving relative to the liquid ejecting unit in the direction along the nozzle surface in a second maintenance operation of removing the foreign matters.

A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head that has a nozzle to eject a liquid and a plurality of surfaces including a nozzle surface in which the nozzle opens, a wiping unit including a first wiping unit for wiping the nozzle surface and a second wiping unit for wiping a surface different from the nozzle surface of the liquid ejecting head, a moving mechanism to relatively move the wiping unit and the liquid ejecting head, and a cleaning member including a cleaning section for cleaning the first wiping unit and the second wiping unit.

A wiping device includes a wiping member including a web to wipe an object to be wiped, and circuitry to cause the wiping member to perform a wiping operation to wipe the object to be wiped. The circuitry causes the wiping member to perform a first wiping operation to move the wiping member relative to the object to be wiped in a first direction to wipe the object to be wiped from a wiping start side of the first wiping operation, and perform a second wiping operation to relatively move the wiping member relative to the object to be wiped in a second direction different from the first direction, to wipe the object to be wiped from a wiping finish side different from the wiping start side of the first wiping operation with the wiping member.

An adhering ink absorption mechanism for a wiper cleaner that facilitates mounting of an ink absorber and replacement of the ink absorber, includes an ink absorber to absorb ink adhering to a wiper by being brought into contact with the wiper, and an ink absorber supporting portion to support the ink absorber at an upper position of the wiper in a state where a contact region with the wiper is released to enable the wiper to be brought into contact with the ink absorber from below by a lifting operation. The ink absorber has a flat plate shape, and includes a placed portion placed on and supported by the ink absorber supporting portion, and an extension region portion bent at an edge of the placed portion and extending downward.

An inkjet recording apparatus includes a holder, a blade and a biasing member. The holder faces a nozzle surface of an inkjet head and moves in a predetermined traveling direction along the nozzle surface. The blade is provided in the holder and swung about a shaft crossing the traveling direction. The biasing member is provided in the holder and biasing the blade in a direction in which a tip end portion of the blade is pressed against the nozzle surface.

A head cleaner to clean a liquid discharge head including a nozzle face in which nozzles are formed includes a wiper to wipe the nozzle face by moving relative to the liquid discharge head in a wiping direction. The wiper includes a wiper sheet, a blade having a higher water repellency than the wiper sheet, and a controller that controls the wiper to perform a first wiping operation and a second wiping operation. The first wiping operation involves wiping the nozzle face with the wiper sheet without bringing the blade into contact with the nozzle face, and the second wiping operation involves wiping the nozzle face with the wiper sheet and the blade by bringing the wiper sheet and the blade into contact with the nozzle face. The controller controls the wiper to perform the second wiping operation after performing the first wiping operation at least once.

A head cleaning mechanism includes a recording head and a wiper. The recording head includes an ink ejection face having an ink ejection region where a plurality of ink ejection openings for ejecting ink onto a recording medium are open. The wiper wipes the ink ejection face in a predetermined direction. The ink ejection face has, downstream of the ink ejection region in the wiping direction, a depressed portion extending in the head width direction perpendicular to the wiping direction. The depressed portion includes an upstream side inclined face which inclines upward from the ink ejection face to the downstream side in the wiping direction, and a downstream side inclined face which is arranged downstream of the upstream side inclined face in the wiping direction and which inclines downward to the downstream side in the wiping direction.