Patent ID: 6017111
Filing Date: 2000-01-25
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
A liquid ejecting apparatus for ejecting liquid to a recording medium by a liquid ejecting head to perform recording on the recording medium, said apparatus comprising:a carriage for reciprocally scanning the liquid ejecting head along a recording surface of the recording medium in a reciprocal scanning range;a frame body accommodating a space to reciprocally scan said carriage without avoiding directly facing the liquid ejecting head to the recording medium, the space including reciprocal scanning spaces being defined by said carriage and said frame body at front and rear portions of said carriage in a direction for moving said carriage, each volume of the reciprocal scanning spaces being increased or decreased in accordance with the reciprocal scanning of said carriage; andports arranged at each end side of said frame body, with each end side being at opposite ends of the reciprocal scanning range of said carriage, each of said ports communicating one of said reciprocal scanning spaces in said frame body with an outside of said frame body, wherein a substance constituting atmosphere within said reciprocal scanning spaces is exhausted through said ports to the outside of said frame body when each volume of said reciprocal scanning spaces is decreased.