Patent ID: 7883178

Claim:
A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising: nozzles capable of ejecting a liquid onto a medium; a rotational drum including a circumferential surface having a holding area for holding the medium and a non-holding area provided with an opening, wherein the circumferential surface rotates while facing the nozzles; and an absorptive drum which is provided inside the rotational drum which is capable of absorbing the liquid ejected from the nozzles toward the opening of the outer circumference in order to perform a flushing operation, wherein the absorptive drum is rotatably supported so that a rotation shaft of the absorptive drum is disposed along a rotation shaft of the rotational drum, wherein the absorptive drum receives and absorbs the liquid at an exposure position which exposed to the nozzles by the opening of the circumferential surface of the rotational drum when the liquid is ejected toward the opening from the nozzles during the flushing operation, and wherein the absorptive drum rotates at an angular velocity which is different than the angular velocity at which the rotational drum rotates.