The invention relates to the technical field of printing equipment, in particular to an ink recovery device for a printing press. The ink recovery device comprises a box, wherein a sloping plate is fixedly connected in the box, slide grooves are formed in the box, a brush is glidingly connected in the slide grooves, the right end of the brush is fixedly connected with a main motor, the bottom endof the main motor is fixedly connected with a slider which is glidingly connected with a slide bar, the right end surface of the slider is rotationally connected with a first connecting rod, the otherend of the first connecting rod is rotationally connected with a second connecting rod, the other end of the second connecting rod is fixedly connected with an auxiliary motor, and the other end of the auxiliary motor is fixedly connected with the box. By means of arrangement of the sloping plate, the brush, the main motor, the slide bar and the slider, ink on the sloping plate can be cleaned, cleanness in the box is kept, the cleaned ink can be recovered, and the ink recovery device has huge economic benefit and broad market prospect and is worth popularizing and using.