Patent attributes
An inkjet printing apparatus includes: a printing head provided with ejection units in each of which ejection port arrays are formed, the ejection units being provided along a first direction; and a suction unit capable of contacting the ejection units and sucking the ejection units while moving relative to the ejection units. A contact region of the suction unit with each of the ejection units does not cover a corner portion among two corner portions of a second ejection unit located at opposite ends of a first end edge thereof on an upstream in a direction of movement, the corner portion being present at a position not overlapping with a second end edge of a first ejection unit on a downstream in the direction of movement when viewed from the direction of movement, the first ejection unit being provided upstream of the second ejection unit in the direction of movement.