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Liquid ejection apparatus
Hirokazu Ono,Kenji Tsukada +1 more
- 26 Jan 2016
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TL;DR: In this paper, a liquid ejection head has a nozzle which ejects a liquid containing volatile organic compounds to a medium; a maintenance unit has a cap, which forms a closed space including an opening of the nozzle, and a suction unit that suctions a fluid from the closed space, and that performs maintenance for discharging the liquid from the nozzle by reducing pressure of the closed spaces.
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Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head having a nozzle which ejects a liquid containing volatile organic compounds to a medium; and a maintenance unit that has a cap, which forms a closed space including an opening of the nozzle, and a suction unit that suctions a fluid from the closed space, and that performs maintenance for discharging the liquid from the nozzle by reducing pressure of the closed space. The maintenance unit is provided with a filter for adsorbing volatile organic compounds contained in the liquid discharged from the liquid ejection head.
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