Patent ID: 8251485

Claim:
A fluid ejecting apparatus comprising: a fluid receptor that receives fluid; a moisturizing liquid receptor that receives moisturizing liquid; a fluid ejecting head that ejects the fluid supplied from the fluid receptor from nozzles formed on a nozzle forming surface; a cap device that has a spatial region becoming airtight by an opening being covered by another member, and is capable of retaining the moisturizing liquid supplied from the moisturizing liquid receptor within the spatial region; and a pressurizing mechanism that leads out the fluid from the inside of the fluid receptor toward the fluid ejecting head and leads out the moisturizing liquid from the inside of the moisturizing liquid receptor toward the inside of the spatial region of the cap device by applying pressure to the fluid receptor and the moisturizing liquid receptor, wherein the cap device has an overflow hold making the moisturizing liquid flow out to the outside of the cap device, when a liquid level of the moisturizing liquid retained within the spatial region becomes equal to or greater than the height of a predetermined threshold liquid level on the basis of the supply from the moisturizing liquid receptor, and wherein the fluid ejecting apparatus includes a moisturizing liquid supply channel capable of supplying the moisturizing liquid from the moisturizing liquid receptor into the spatial region, a moisturizing liquid discharge channel is branched off from midway in the moisturizing liquid supply channel, and the downstream end of the moisturizing liquid discharge channel communicates with the overflow hole.