In a case where a home position of a carriage and a maintenance position are set on the same side while a wiper is taken as a border, when the carriage at the home position moves for performing recording on a recording medium, a cam is driven so as to cause a release section to move the wiper from a wiping position to a receded position before the carriage moves. Thereafter, movement of the carriage is started. When wiping of a recording head by means of the wiper is not required, by means of returning the wiper to the receded position in advance, unnecessary contact between the wiper and the recording head can be prevented.
An inkjet head including: (a) a passage defining unit having (a-1) pressure chambers and (a-2) inlets opening in its an inlet defining surface and held in communication with the pressure chambers; (b) a filter plate disposed on the inlet defining surface of the passage defining unit; (c) a frame fixed to the inlet defining surface of the passage defining unit, and having an aperture which is formed therethrough such that the filter plate is surrounded by an inner circumferential surface of the aperture; and (d) an elastic plate disposed within the aperture of the frame, and having communication through-holes held in communication with the respective inlets of the passage defining unit through the filter plate. The frame includes an inward protrusion which protrudes inwardly from the inner circumferential surface of the aperture. The elastic plate includes an outward protrusion which protrudes outwardly from its outer circumferential surface and which is held between the inward protrusion of the frame and the filter plate and/or between the inward protrusion and the passage defining unit.
