Patent ID: 8550592
Filing Date: 2013-10-08
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A fluid ejecting apparatus comprising: a rotating drum body which rotates while holding a medium wrapped around its circumferential surface; a fluid ejecting section which ejects fluid toward the medium such that a margin is not formed at an end portion of the medium on the circumferential surface in an axial direction of the rotating body; an absorber which absorbs fluid which has come out of the end portion of the medium on the circumferential surface in the axial direction, out of fluid ejected from the fluid ejecting section, at a position further outside than the end portion; and a rotating body driving mechanism for rotating the rotating body, which drives the rotating body such that driving force by the rotating body driving mechanism is not transmitted to the absorber, wherein the absorber is rotatable independently of the rotating body in a state where an axial direction of the absorber is coincident with the axial direction of the rotating body, and the apparatus further comprises an absorber driving mechanism for rotating the absorber.