Patent ID: 8398203
Filing Date: 2013-03-19
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A fluid ejecting apparatus comprising: a fluid ejecting head in which nozzles are formed on a nozzle forming surface; a first cap device that has a spatial region that becomes airtight by an opening being covered by the fluid ejecting head or a support supporting the fluid ejecting head in a state where the opening surrounds the nozzles of the nozzle forming surface; a second cap device that has a spatial region that becomes airtight by an opening being covered by the first cap device; a maintenance device that is received in a disposition state corresponding to the fluid ejecting head within the spatial region of the second cap device; an individual transfer mechanism that moves the maintenance device relative to the second cap device; a simultaneous transfer mechanism that moves the second cap device between a maintenance position, which is a position state where the maintenance device approaches the fluid ejecting head, and a retracted position, which is a position state where the maintenance device is separated from the fluid ejecting head; and a first cap device transfer mechanism that moves the first cap device between an interference position that is located on a movement path of the second cap device between the maintenance position and the retracted position, and a non-interference position that is separated from the interference position in a direction intersecting a direction in which the movement path of the second cap device is extended, wherein the first cap device approaches the fluid ejecting head by being pressed, in the interference position, by the second cap device that moves from the retracted position to the maintenance position direction with driving of the simultaneous transfer mechanism.