Patent ID: 8662633

Claim:
A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising: a moving body supporting a liquid ejecting head that can eject a liquid on a target from nozzles and configured to be movable in a scanning direction, the moving body configured to side via a slide member to smoothly slide and move over a sliding face extending in the scanning direction; a cap member configured to abut the liquid ejecting head to surround the nozzles along with a biasing force from a perpendicular direction that is orthogonal to the scanning direction, the cap member being moved to abut the liquid ejecting head through movement of the moving body in the scanning direction; and a pressing member arranged to oppose the cap member with the moving body therebetween, and pressing the moving body to the cap member side against the biasing force that acts on the moving body along with an abutting of the cap member against the liquid ejecting head, the pressing member configured to press the moving body in a direction perpendicular to the sliding face, the pressing member a of the slide member on the sliding face in the scanning direction, wherein a sum of a weight of the moving body itself and a pressing force with which the pressing member presses the moving body is equal to or greater than the biasing force that acts on the moving body by the abutting of the cap member.