Patent ID: 9592669
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: B41J

Claim:
1. A recording apparatus comprising: a recording head which performs recording on a recording medium; a support section which is displaced between a support position which faces the recording head and supports the recording medium and a position which is retreated from the support position; a maintenance unit which carries out maintenance on the recording head at a facing position which faces the recording head by switching the support section; and a movement mechanism which moves the maintenance unit between the facing position and the position which is retreated from the facing position in a transport direction of the recording medium, wherein the movement mechanism includes: accompanying movement in the transport direction of the movable carriage, when the maintenance unit comes close to the facing position, or separates from the facing position, by the link member rotating using the guided section as a support point, the amount of movement in the one direction in the transport direction of the maintenance unit is offset by the amount of movement in the other direction in the transport direction of the guided section, wherein the movement distance of the maintenance unit is shorter than the movement distance of the moveable carriage by the offset.