Patent ID: 7258420

Claim:
An inkjet printer comprising: a carriage that has a recording head and moves reciprocatively along a moving path between a maintenance position and a recording position; a wiper disposed at a position along the moving path and performs a wiping operation to wipe the recording head to remove ink adhering to the recording head; and a cam that displaces the wiper between a receded position where the wiper recedes from the recording head and a wiping position where the wiper is brought into contact with the recording head to perform the wiping operation, wherein the wiper is retained in the wiping position to perform the wiping operation when the carriage moves from the maintenance position to the recording position, wherein the wiper interferes with the carriage and is displaced from the wiping position to the receded position when the carriage moves from the recording position to the maintenance position, and wherein the cam is provided with a release section that engages with the wiper and displaces the wiper from the wiping position to the receded position.