Patent ID: 8419163

Claim:
An inkjet drawing apparatus comprising: a head module which holds a droplet jetting head provided with a nozzle for ejecting droplets, and which is configured to be unmovable in a horizontal direction; a drawing table adapted to support a recording member on an upper surface, and which is configured to be movable in the horizontal direction, wherein the inkjet drawing apparatus executes a prescribed drawing by ejecting the droplets onto the recording member from the droplet jetting head; a maintenance unit transfer mechanism which is configured to be movable within a prescribed region including a position just under the head module, and which transfers a maintenance unit for conducting a maintenance of the droplet jetting head toward the position just under the head module, and executes positioning of the maintenance unit with respect to the droplet jetting head; and a maintenance unit selecting/arranging mechanism which selects one of a plurality of kinds of maintenance units for conducting the maintenance of the droplet jetting head, and places the selected maintenance unit on the maintenance unit transfer mechanism; wherein the maintenance unit selecting/arranging mechanism comprises a holding unit to hold the selected maintenance unit and a moving unit to move the maintenance unit held by the holding unit to the maintenance unit transfer mechanism; and wherein the maintenance unit selecting/arranging mechanism is installed on a surface of a different member from a platen on which the head module is installed, and the surface of the different member is arranged at a lower position than a surface of the platen on which the head module is installed.