INK-JET PRINTER AND METHOD FOR RESTORING PRINT HEAD Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC B41J2/165 

FIELD: printing.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to an ink-jet printer in which the operation of restoring is performed in the print head for ejecting ink, and to a method for restoring the print head in the ink-jet printer. The ink-jet printer comprises a print head that can eject ink. The device also comprises a transportation unit, which serves for transportation of a recording medium along the transportation path passing the printing position in which printing can be performed on the printing carrier by the print head. The cutter which can cut the printing carrier. The restoring unit to perform operations of restoring the print head. The control unit to control the restoring operation performed by the restoring unit based on the number of passes which is the number of times that the cut-off part of printing carrier, which is cut off by the cutter, passes the printing position.

EFFECT: proposed invention provides the systematisation of the process of restoring the print head taking into account cutting of the carrier.

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