Patent ID: 9573375
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: B41J

Claim:
1. A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising: a liquid ejecting unit which has an opening face to which a plurality of nozzles which eject liquid onto a medium are open; a holding unit which holds a wiping member which can wipe off the opening face; a movement mechanism which relatively moves the liquid ejecting unit and the wiping member in a wiping direction within a movement region which includes a contact region in which the liquid ejecting unit and the wiping member come into contact with each other, and a non-contact region in which the liquid ejecting unit and the wiping member do not come into contact with each other; and a control unit which successively executing an wiping operation in which the opening face is wiped off by causing the liquid ejecting unit and the wiping member to relatively move in the contact region, and a movement operation in which the liquid ejecting unit and the wiping member are caused to relatively move in the non-contact region while controlling the movement mechanism, wherein the control unit can select, as the wiping operation, between a first wiping operation in which the relative movement is executed at a first speed, and a second wiping operation in which the relative movement is executed at a second speed which is lower than the first speed and execute the movement operation at a speed which is higher than the first speed.