Patent ID: 8104869

Claim:
In a device for cleaning an ink jet print head having a nozzle exit surface with nozzle openings therein of a printing device in which the ink jet print head is mounted stationary but pivotable in a print window of a guide plate for items to be printed that are directed by the guide plate along the ink jet print head, and having a cleaning and sealing device behind the guide plate and below the ink jet print head that is movable toward and away from the ink jet print head by a displacement device and that contains a receptacle with a wiping device, a spray duct and a sealing cap in sequence behind the guide plate, the improvement comprising: said wiping device being formed as an actuated, elastic wiping roller that is transversely freely rotatably directed along the nozzle exit surface in a cleaning operation implemented by said cleaning and sealing device, and that continuously rests without constraint on a cleaning element of the cleaning and sealing device.