Patent ID: 9682583
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: B41J

Claim:
1. A control method for a liquid ejecting system provided with a liquid ejecting apparatus including a liquid ejecting portion that includes a plurality of nozzles through each of which a liquid is ejected, a nozzle inspecting portion that performs an ejection inspection for inspecting whether or not the nozzles are in a state capable of ejecting liquid droplets correctly, and a maintenance portion that performs maintenance of the nozzles, and an inputting apparatus including a data inputting portion through which data can be inputted, the control method comprising: a specific data detecting process that detects whether or not input data inputted to the data inputting portion of the inputting apparatus is specific data which is other than liquid ejection data for causing a liquid corresponding to an image to be formed on an ejection target medium to be ejected from the liquid ejecting portion, the specific data being other than data in accordance with operation history of the liquid ejecting apparatus, and the specific data being determined in advance as data for prompting the ejection inspection; a data transmitting process that transmits liquid ejection data for causing the liquid to be ejected on the ejection target medium, from the inputting apparatus to the liquid ejecting apparatus; a nozzle inspecting process that, in the case where the specific data is detected in the specific data detecting process, causes the nozzle inspecting portion to perform the ejection inspection; and a maintenance process that, in accordance with a state of the nozzles which is detected in the nozzle inspecting process, causes the maintenance portion to perform maintenance of the nozzles, wherein the maintenance process is initiated before the liquid ejection data is transmitted from the inputting apparatus to the liquid ejecting apparatus by the data transmitting process.