Patent ID: 8246162

Claim:
A transporting device comprising: a pallet that transports a recording medium while attracting the recording medium thereto; a first pallet transporting device as a pallet transporting section provided at a position facing a liquid ejecting head which ejects a liquid onto the recording medium, and that transports and drives the pallet by means of magnetic force along the pallet transporting section; and a second pallet transporting device, which is different from the first pallet transporting device, as a belt driving section that supports the pallet with an endless belt member, and moves the pallet from a downstream side of the liquid ejecting head in a direction in which the recording medium is transported, to an upstream side in the direction in which the recording medium is transported, via a lower side, in a vertical direction, of the pallet transporting section, wherein at the position that the pallet is facing the liquid ejecting head and at a time in which the liquid is ejected onto the recording medium on the pallet, the pallet is transported and driven by the first pallet transporting device while the pallet is supported by the second pallet transporting device.