EP2907668A1 - Dispositif de décharge de liquide et procédé de commande d'unité de nettoyage de courroie - Google Patents

Dispositif de décharge de liquide et procédé de commande d'unité de nettoyage de courroie Download PDF

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EP2907668A1
EP2907668A1 EP15155472.2A EP15155472A EP2907668A1 EP 2907668 A1 EP2907668 A1 EP 2907668A1 EP 15155472 A EP15155472 A EP 15155472A EP 2907668 A1 EP2907668 A1 EP 2907668A1
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Hirotaka Ishizuka
Shuichi Kanemoto
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J11/00—Devices or arrangements  of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
    • B41J11/007—Conveyor belts or like feeding devices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J29/00—Details of, or accessories for, typewriters or selective printing mechanisms not otherwise provided for
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  • the present invention relates to a liquid discharge device including a medium transport unit having a transport belt that transports a medium and a belt cleaning unit that cleans the transport belt, and a control method of the belt cleaning unit that is used when the liquid discharge device is used.2.
  • a screen printing device and a roller printing device in which plates of each color are prepared for each drawing pattern to be printed have been widely used as a device that performs printing on a fabric such as cotton, silk, and polyester.
  • an ink jet printing device that can print on fabric without using a plate and thereby can cope with job shop type production is spreading rapidly.
  • an ink jet printing device including a medium transport unit having a transport belt that transports a medium by attaching the medium thereto by an adhesive layer formed on a surface thereof and a belt cleaning unit that cleans the transport belt.
  • JP-A-2004-137032 discloses a belt cleaning device including a blade and an absorption roller.
  • JP-A-2004-137033 discloses a belt cleaning device including a blade and a cleaning roller (absorption roller).
  • JP-A-2005-219334 discloses a cleaning system including a cleaning roller.
  • the blades and the rollers disclosed in JP-A-2004-137032 , JP-A-2004-137033 , and JP-A-2005-219334 are provided in a fixed state. In other words, the blades and the rollers are pressure-contacted to the belt at all times not only during printing but also during stoppage of printing.
  • a concave portion may be formed on the surface of the transport belt, and in particular, the concave portion is noticeable in a transport belt having an adhesive layer on the surface of the transport belt.
  • a medium rises from a support surface of the transport belt and degradation of print quality and transport failure may occur due to the rise of the medium.
  • the cleaning tool is detached from the transport belt and the pressure contact by the cleaning tool is released, the concave portion on the transport belt can be reduced.
  • the cleaning tool is detached from the transport belt, droplets used for cleaning remain on the transport belt. Therefore, if movement of the transport belt is restarted in this state, the droplets remaining on the transport belt attach to the medium and stain the medium.
  • An advantage of some aspects of the invention is to reduce the stains of the medium caused when the droplets, which remain on the transport belt where the pressure contact by the cleaning tool is released, attach to the medium.
  • a liquid discharge device includes a medium transport unit including a transport belt that transports a medium and a belt cleaning unit that cleans the transport belt.
  • the belt cleaning unit includes a first wiper blade located on an upstream side in a belt moving direction and a second wiper blade located on a downstream side in the belt moving direction in a cleaning area of the transport belt. At least the first wiper blade is configured to be attachable to and detachable from the transport belt.
  • the expression “attachable to” includes “contactable with”
  • the expression “detachable from” includes “removable from contact with”
  • like expressions should be interpreted accordingly. There is no requirement for the wiper blade(s) to be fixed to the belt.
  • the second wiper blade is provided in the downstream of the first wiper blade that is attachable to and detachable from the transport belt, so that it is possible to reduce stains of the medium caused when droplets, which remain on the transport belt where a pressure contact of the first wiper blade is released, attach to the medium.
  • a contact angle of the first wiper blade with respect to a surface of the transport belt is set to greater than a contact angle of the second wiper blade with respect to the surface of the transport belt.
  • an area where the first wiper blade is in contact with the transport belt is smaller than an area where the second wiper blade is in contact with the transport belt, and a pressure contact force by which the first wiper blade is pressure-contacted to the transport belt is greater than a pressure contact force by which the second wiper blade is pressure-contacted to the transport belt. Therefore, while the transport belt is moving, a cleaning power of the first wiper blade which is first applied to the transport belt in the moving direction is stronger than that of the second wiper blade which is next applied to the transport belt. On the other hand, while the transport belt stops, a concave portion easily occurs on the surface of the transport belt in the contact region with the first wiper blade whose contact area is small and pressure contact force is large.
  • the concave portion on the surface of the transport belt it is possible to reduce the generation of the concave portion on the surface of the transport belt by detaching the first wiper blade from the transport belt.
  • the pressure contact force is small at the contact region with the second wiper blade, so that the concave portion on the surface of the transport belt is difficult to occur.
  • the concave portion is very small, so that the risk of, for example, degradation of print quality and occurrence of transport failure due to the concave portion on the surface of the transport belt is very small.
  • the belt cleaning unit includes a control unit that controls an attaching/detaching operation of the first wiper blade to and from the transport belt, and the control unit can control the time when the first wiper blade attached to the transport belt starts detaching from the transport belt after the transport belt stops.
  • the control unit that controls the attaching/detaching operation of the first wiper blade to and from the transport belt is provided, so that it is possible to control switching between attaching and detaching of the first wiper blade and the timing to perform the attaching and the detaching of the first wiper blade. Further, the control unit can detach the first wiper blade attached to the transport belt after a predetermined time (for example, about 30 minutes or less) elapses after the transport belt stops. Therefore, it is possible to reduce a risk that the droplets remain on the transport belt, which cause a problem when the first wiper blade is detached immediately after the transport belt stops.
  • a predetermined time for example, about 30 minutes or less
  • the concave portion on the surface of the transport belt is difficult to occur, so that the risk of, for example, degradation of print quality and occurrence of transport failure due to the concave portion on the surface of the transport belt is very small.
  • control unit can control the first wiper blade so that when the stopped transport belt starts moving, the first wiper blade detached from the transport belt comes into contact with the transport belt before the transport belt starts moving.
  • the droplets which remain in the contact region of the first wiper blade due to the detachment of the first wiper blade, are prevented from directly moving downstream when the movement of the transport belt is started.
  • the remaining droplets are divided into droplets in an upstream position of the first wiper blade and droplets in a downstream position of the first wiper blade, so that the number of droplets that reach the contact region of the second wiper blade located at a downstream position in the belt moving direction becomes small.
  • a cleaning brush is provided at a position on an upstream side of the first wiper blade in the belt moving direction, and the cleaning brush is configured to be attachable to and detachable from the transport belt.
  • the cleaning brush works on them and removes most of them. Then, the reduced stains along with the droplets reach the contact region of the first wiper blade located at a downstream position in the belt moving direction. Therefore, the amount of stains remaining after the cleaning of the first wiper blade and the second wiper blade is reduced, so that the risk of stains to the medium is very small.
  • the belt cleaning unit includes a control unit that controls an attaching/detaching operation of the cleaning brush to and from the transport belt.
  • the control unit that controls the attaching/detaching operation of the cleaning brush to and from the transport belt is provided, so that it is possible to control switching between attaching and detaching of the cleaning brush and the timing to perform the attaching and the detaching of the cleaning brush. Therefore, when the transport belt stops, it is possible to perform control so that the cleaning brush is first detached from the transport belt and then the first wiper blade is detached from the transport belt. Thereby, it is possible to reduce the chance where the stains remaining on the transport belt in the contact region of the cleaning brush directly reach the contract region of the first wiper blade when the transport belt starts moving.
  • the second wiper blade is configured to be attachable to and detachable from the transport belt.
  • the concave portion on an adhesive layer on the surface of the transport belt which is generated when the second wiper blade is pressure-contacted to the transport belt for a long time while the transport belt stops, by detaching the second wiper blade from the transport belt. Therefore, it is possible to further reduce, for example, the degradation of print quality and the occurrence of transport failure due to the concave portion on the adhesive layer by combining the above operation with the attaching/detaching operation of the first wiper blade.
  • the belt cleaning unit includes a control unit that controls an attaching/detaching operation of the second wiper blade to and from the transport belt.
  • the control unit that controls the attaching/detaching operation of the second wiper blade to and from the transport belt is provided, so that it is possible to control switching between attaching and detaching of the second wiper blade and the timing to perform the attaching and the detaching of the second wiper blade. Therefore, when the transport belt stops, it is possible to perform control so as to wait until the first wiper blade detaches from the transport belt and then detach the second wiper blade from the transport belt. In this way, it is possible to reduce the chance where the droplets remaining on the transport belt in the contact region of the first wiper blade directly reach the contract region of the second wiper blade when the transport belt starts moving.
  • a control method of a belt cleaning unit of a ninth aspect of the invention when controlling a belt cleaning unit that cleans a surface of a transport belt by sequentially operating a first wiper blade located on an upstream side in a belt moving direction and a second wiper blade located on a downstream side in the belt moving direction in a cleaning area for the transport belt that is cyclically transported between a printing area and the cleaning area, the first wiper blade that is attached to the surface of the transport belt while the transport belt is moving is detached from the surface of the transport belt while the transport belt stops.
  • the second wiper blade is provided in the downstream of the first wiper blade, so that it is possible to reduce stains of the medium caused when droplets remaining on the transport belt attach to the medium by detaching the first wiper blade from the transport belt while the transport belt stops. Further, it is possible to adjust the timing to detach the first wiper blade by controlling an operation to detach the first wiper blade.
  • the liquid discharge device 1 of the first embodiment of the invention is basically configured to include a medium transport unit 3 having a transport belt 9 that transports a medium M by attaching the medium M thereto by an adhesive layer 7 formed on a surface thereof and a belt cleaning unit 5 that cleans the transport belt 9.
  • the belt cleaning unit 5 is provided with a first wiper blade 15 located on the upstream side of a belt moving direction D and a second wiper blade 17 located on the downstream side of the belt moving direction D in a cleaning area 13 of the transport belt 9. At least the first wiper blade 15 is configured to be attachable to and detachable from the transport belt 9.
  • the liquid discharge device 1A shown in Fig. 1 is an ink jet printing device that uses a fabric as the medium M.
  • the "fabric” is a textile product such as a cloth and a woven fabric, which use natural fiber such as cotton, hemp, and silk, chemical fiber such as nylon and polyester, and mixture of these as its original yarn.
  • the liquid discharge device 1A is provided with, in addition to the medium transport unit 3 and belt cleaning unit 5 described above, a liquid discharge head 19 that performs printing by discharging ink, which is an example of the liquid, to a surface to be printed of the medium M supplied to the printing area 11, a carriage 23 that reciprocates in a width direction B, which is a scanning direction and which crosses a transport direction A of the medium M, along a carriage guide shaft 21 in a state in which the liquid discharge head 19 is mounted as an example on a lower surface of the carriage 23, a guide roller 27 that guides the medium M, which is peeled off from the transport belt 9 after the printing is performed on the medium M, to a winding unit 25, the winding unit 25 that winds the medium M guided by the guide roller 27, and a sensor 29 configured as an example by a contactless optical sensor or the like that detects a winding state of the medium M by the winding unit 25, the timing when the medium M is peeled off from the transport belt 9, and the like.
  • a liquid discharge head 19 that
  • the medium transport unit 3 is configured to include the transport belt 9 having an endless belt shape which is cyclically transported between the printing area 11 and the cleaning area 13, a drive roller 31 that transmits a drive force in a rotation direction C as an example to the transport belt 9, and a driven roller 33 which is arranged separately from the drive roller 31 and which stretches and holds the wound transport belt 9 in cooperation with the drive roller 31.
  • the drive roller 31 is arranged as an example at a downstream position in the belt moving direction D when the medium M is located in the printing area 11, and the driven roller 33 is arranged as an example at an upstream position in the belt moving direction D.
  • the aforementioned adhesive layer 7 to which the medium M is attached and temporarily fixed is provided on the outer surface of the transport belt 9 having an endless belt shape.
  • the belt cleaning unit 5 is a member arranged in the cleaning area 13 of the transport belt 9 having an endless belt shape.
  • the belt cleaning unit 5 includes, in addition to the first wiper blade 15 and the second wiper blade 17, a cleaning liquid tank 35 that stores a cleaning liquid W and a cleaning brush 37 which is located at an upstream position of the first wiper blade 15 in the belt moving direction D in the cleaning liquid tank 35 and which comes into contact with the surface of the transport belt 9 and removes stains attached to the surface of the transport belt 9 by partially dipping itself into the cleaning liquid W and rotating in a rotation direction C.
  • the first wiper blade 15 is arranged at a position downstream of the cleaning brush 37 in the belt moving direction D in the cleaning liquid tank 35.
  • the second wiper blade 17 is arranged at a position downstream of the first wiper blade 15 in the belt moving direction D.
  • the second wiper blade 17 is arranged in a fixed state and is in contact with the surface of the transport belt 9 at all times not only while the transport belt 9 is moving but also while the transport belt 9 stops (including while the transport belt 9 temporarily stops).
  • the first wiper blade 15 is arranged to be attachable to and detachable from the transport belt 9 by a known moving mechanism not shown in the drawings and is configured to be movable between a contact position O at which the first wiper blade 15 comes into contact with the surface of the transport belt 9 and a detached position P at which the first wiper blade 15 is detached from the surface of the transport belt 9.
  • the first wiper blade 15 is configured to be linearly movable in the vertical direction Z as an example in the first embodiment.
  • a contact angle ⁇ 1 of the first wiper blade 15 with respect to the surface of the transport belt 9 is set to greater than a contact angle ⁇ 2 of the second wiper blade 17 with respect to the surface of the transport belt 9 ( ⁇ 1 > ⁇ 2).
  • an area where the first wiper blade 15 is in contact with the transport belt 9 is smaller than an area where the second wiper blade 17 is in contact with the transport belt 9, and a pressure contact force by which the first wiper blade 15 is pressure-contacted to the transport belt 9 is greater than a pressure contact force by which the second wiper blade 17 is pressure-contacted to the transport belt 9. Accordingly, while the transport belt 9 is moving, a cleaning power such as a scraping power of the first wiper blade 15 which is first applied to the transport belt 9 in the moving direction of the belt is stronger than that of the second wiper blade 17 which is next applied to the transport belt 9.
  • the first wiper blade 15 with strong cleaning power cleans stains attached to the transport belt 9, and after the first wiper blade 15 performs the cleaning processing, the second wiper blade 17, whose cleaning power such as scraping power is weak, further performs cleaning, so that two stages of cleaning are performed.
  • the belt cleaning unit 5 is provided with a control unit 39 that controls an attaching/detaching operation of the first wiper blade 15 to and from the transport belt 9.
  • the control unit 39 controls the time when the first wiper blade 15 attached to the transport belt 9 starts detaching from the transport belt 9 after the transport belt 9 stops. Specifically, the control unit 39 controls the time so that the first wiper blade 15 starts detaching after a predetermined time of, for example, about 30 minutes or less, elapses after the transport belt 9 stops.
  • the "stop” used for the transport belt 9 in the present specification includes a state in which the printing is completed and the medium M is not present on the transport belt 9 located in the printing area 11 and a state of temporary stop in which the printing is temporarily stopped and the medium M is attached to the transport belt 9 located in the printing area 11.
  • the "start” used for the movement of the transport belt 9 means an action to move the transport belt 9 from the state of "stop” described above and also includes an action to restart the movement of the transport belt 9 from the state of "temporary stop” described above.
  • the predetermined time is about 30 minutes or less.
  • the predetermined time is not limited to "30 minutes”.
  • the concave portion may be difficult to occur depending on the thickness and the hardness of the adhesive layer 7, the environmental temperature, and the like, so that in such a case, the predetermined time may be set to a value longer than 30 minutes.
  • the control unit 39 controls the first wiper blade 15 so that when the stopped transport belt 9 starts moving, the first wiper blade 15 detached from the transport belt 9 comes into contact with the transport belt 9 before the transport belt 9 starts moving.
  • the droplets G which remain on the surface of the transport belt 9 in a contact region of the first wiper blade 15 due to the detachment of the first wiper blade 15, are divided by the contact of the first wiper blade 15 and some of the droplets G can be scraped off by the first wiper blade 15. Thereby, the number of droplets G that move downstream of the first wiper blade 15 in the belt moving direction D is reduced, so that the risk of stains on the medium M is reduced.
  • a towel roller 41 is provided at a position facing the driven roller 33 in the medium transport unit 3 at a downstream position of the cleaning liquid tank 35 in the belt moving direction D.
  • the towel roller 41 is a roller obtained by applying cloth such as towel cloth to an outer circumference surface of a roller which comes into contact with the surface of the transport belt 9.
  • the towel roller 41 may drivenly rotate by coming into contact with the transport belt 9 or may drivingly rotate in a direction opposite to the driven rotation.
  • the towel roller 41 may be a non-rotating roller that is only pressure-contacted to the transport belt 9 and does not rotate.
  • the cleaning liquid W stored in the cleaning liquid tank 35 may be mere water or a special liquid containing a cleaning ingredient and an ink solvent component.
  • the control method of the belt cleaning unit is a control method of the belt cleaning unit 5 arranged in the cleaning area 13 with respect to the transport belt 9 which is cyclically transported between the printing area 11 and the cleaning area 13 and is characterized in that the first wiper blade 15 which is attached to the surface of the transport belt 9 while the transport belt 9 is moving is detached from the surface of the transport belt 9 while the transport belt 9 stops.
  • control method of the belt cleaning unit 5 included in the liquid discharge device 1A will be specifically described along with operations of each unit in the belt cleaning unit 5.
  • the description will be divided into (A) When the belt is moving, (B) When the belt temporarily stops, (C) When the first wiper blade 15 is detached, (D) When the first wiper blade 15 is attached again, and (E) When the belt restarts moving.
  • the transport belt 9 moves right to left in Fig. 2 in the printing area 11, however when the transport belt 9 enters the cleaning area 13, the transport belt 9 moves left to right in Fig. 2 by changing the belt moving direction D.
  • the transport belt 9 that enters the cleaning area 13 first comes into contact with the cleaning brush 37 which contains the cleaning liquid W and rotates in the rotation direction C, so that stains such as ink attached to the surface of the transport belt 9 are removed. Subsequently, the droplets G0 that contains the stains attached to the transport belt 9 due to the contact with the cleaning brush 37 are carried to the contact position of the first wiper blade 15 at a downstream position in the belt moving direction D. At the contact position of the first wiper blade 15, the first wiper blade 15 works so as to scrape the surface of the transport belt 9 and removes the droplets G0 and the like attached to the transport belt 9.
  • the droplets G1 that are not removed by the first wiper blade 15 are carried to the contact position of the second wiper blade 17 at a position downstream in the belt moving direction D.
  • the second wiper blade 17 works so as to stroke the surface of the transport belt 9 and removes the droplets G1 remaining on the transport belt 9.
  • the droplets G2 that are not removed by the second wiper blade 17 are carried to the contact position of the towel roller 41 at a position downstream in the belt moving direction D.
  • the towel roller 41 works so as to wipe the surface of the transport belt 9 and absorbs and removes stains remaining on the transport belt 9 along with the droplets G2.
  • the first wiper blade 15 located at the contact position O is moved to a detached position P.
  • a state in which the first wiper blade 15 is attached to the surface of the transport belt 9 for a long time while the transport belt 9 is temporarily stopped is avoided. Therefore, the risk that a concave portion occurs on the adhesive layer 7 when the first wiper blade 15 is caused to come into contact with the surface of the transport belt 9 for a long time is reduced, so that degradation of print quality and occurrence of transport failure due to the concave portion on the adhesive layer 7 are suppressed.
  • the first wiper blade 15 standing by at the detached position P is caused to come into contact with the surface of the transport belt 9 again.
  • the droplets G0 which remain in the contact region of the first wiper blade 15 due to the detachment of the first wiper blade 15, are prevented from directly moving downstream when the movement of the transport belt 9 is restarted.
  • the remaining droplets G0 are divided into two portions: one is in the upstream position of the first wiper blade 15 in the belt moving direction D and the other one is in the downstream position, so that the amount of droplets G0 that reach the contact region of the second wiper blade becomes small, shown as g0 in Figs. 5 and 6 .
  • liquid discharge device 1A According to the liquid discharge device 1A according to the first embodiment configured as described above and the control method of the belt cleaning unit performed by using the liquid discharge device 1A, it is possible to reduce the occurrence of a concave portion on the adhesive layer 7 that occurs while the transport belt 9 stops, and thereby it is possible to suppress the degradation of print quality and reduce the transport failure of the medium. Further, it is possible to reduce the stains of the medium M caused when the droplets G, which remain on the transport belt 9 where the pressure contact by the first wiper blade 15 is released, attach to the medium M.
  • a liquid discharge device 1B according to the second embodiment is a device in which the cleaning brush 37 that is in contact with the transport belt 9 at all times in the first embodiment can be detached from the transport belt 9 and an attaching/detaching operation of the cleaning brush 37 can be controlled.
  • the other configuration is the same as that of the liquid discharge device 1A according to the first embodiment. Therefore, here, the description of the same configuration as that of the first embodiment will be omitted and a configuration newly employed in the second embodiment will be mainly described.
  • the cleaning brush 37 whose position with respect to the transport belt 9 is fixed is configured to be attachable to and detachable from the transport belt 9. Further, the control unit 39 which controls the attaching/detaching operation of the first wiper blade 15 controls the attaching/detaching operation of the cleaning brush 37.
  • the liquid discharge device 1B according to the second embodiment configured as described above it is also possible to obtain the same functions and effects as those of the liquid discharge device 1A according to the first embodiment described above.
  • the cleaning brush 37 works on them and removes most of them. Then, the reduced stains along with the droplets G reach the contact region of the first wiper blade 15 located at a downstream position in the belt moving direction D. Therefore, the amount of stains remaining after the scraping of the first wiper blade 15 is also reduced, so that the risk of stains to the medium M is reduced.
  • the control unit 39 can control switching between attaching and detaching of the cleaning brush 37 and the timing to perform the attaching and the detaching of the cleaning brush 37. Therefore, when the transport belt 9 stops, it is possible to independently control each of the cleaning brush 37 and the first wiper blade 15 so that the cleaning brush 37 is first detached from the transport belt 9 and then the first wiper blade 15 is detached from the transport belt 9. In this way, it is possible to reduce the case in which the stains remaining on the transport belt 9 in the contact region of the cleaning brush 37 directly reach the contract region of the first wiper blade 15 when the transport belt 9 starts moving. Alternatively, the cleaning brush 37 and the first wiper 15 may be moved at the same time, or at different times to those described above.
  • a liquid discharge device 1C according to the third embodiment is a device in which the second wiper blade 17 that is in contact with the transport belt 9 at all times in the first and second embodiments can be detached from the transport belt 9 and an attaching/detaching operation of the second wiper blade 17 can be controlled.
  • the other configuration is the same as that of the liquid discharge device 1A, 1B according to the first or second embodiment described above. Therefore, here, the description of the same configuration as that of the first and second embodiments will be omitted and a configuration newly employed in the third embodiment will be mainly described.
  • the second wiper blade 17 whose position with respect to the transport belt 9 is fixed is configured to be attachable to and detachable from the transport belt 9. Further, the control unit 39 which controls the attaching/detaching operation of the first wiper blade 15 controls the attaching/detaching operation of the second wiper blade 17.
  • the liquid discharge device 1C according to the third embodiment configured as described above it is also possible to obtain the same functions and effects as those of the liquid discharge device 1A according to the first and second embodiments described above.
  • the third embodiment it is possible to reduce the generation of the concave portion on the adhesive layer 7 on the surface of the transport belt 9, which is generated when the second wiper blade 17 is pressure-contacted to the transport belt 9 for a long time while the transport belt 9 stops, by detaching the second wiper blade 17 from the transport belt 9. Therefore, it is possible to further reduce the degradation of print quality and the occurrence of transport failure due to the concave portion on the adhesive layer 7 by combining the above operation with the attaching/detaching operation of the first wiper blade 15.
  • control unit 39 can control the attaching/detaching operation of the second wiper blade 17 with respect to the transport belt 9, so that it is possible to control switching between attaching and detaching of the second wiper blade 17 and the timing to perform the attaching and the detaching of the second wiper blade 17. Therefore, when the transport belt 9 stops, it is possible to independently control each of the first wiper blade 15 and the second wiper blade 17 so as to wait until the first wiper blade 15 detaches from the transport belt 9 and then detach the second wiper blade 17 from the transport belt 9.
  • the liquid discharge device 1 and the control method of a belt cleaning unit according to the invention basically have the configurations as described above. However, it is of course possible to partially change or remove the configurations without departing from the scope of the invention. For example, as shown by a liquid discharge device 1D according to an embodiment shown in Fig. 9 , it is possible to change the attaching/detaching direction of the first wiper blade 15 from the vertical direction Z to a swinging direction R, so that it is possible to change the movement of the first wiper blade 15 from a linear movement to a curved movement.
  • the first wiper blade 15 when configured to be able to swing in the swinging direction R, it is possible to adjust the contact angle ⁇ when the first wiper blade 15 comes into contact with the surface of the transport belt 9 and reverse the tilt direction of the first wiper blade 15 when the movement direction D of the transport belt is reversed.
  • the second wiper 17 can be moved in the same way.
  • the liquid discharge device 1 according to the invention can be applied not only to the ink jet printing device, but also to an ink jet printer that handles a paper sheet and a film as the medium M and a liquid discharge device that has a so-called line head that does not include the carriage 23.
  • the "line head” is a liquid discharge head 19 in which a nozzle area formed in the width direction B crossing the transport direction A of the medium M is configured to be able to cover the entire range in the width direction of a surface to be printed of the medium M.
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