Patent ID: 8425001

Claim:
A fluid ejecting apparatus comprising: an ejection head that has an ejection face to eject fluid; a cap portion that covers the ejection face of the ejection head; a tube pump that includes a tube member connected to the cap portion and having a curved portion with flexibility and a roller member rolling in an inner circumference of the curved portion while pressing and deforming the tube member, to change pressure of a space at the cap portion by the rolling of the roller member; and a control device that drives the tube pump, in one maintenance operation, when a real absorption operation of rolling the roller member is performed many times in a state where the cap portion covers the ejection face, to adjust a starting position of the roller member when performing the real absorption operation by performing an idle absorption operation of rolling the roller member in a state where the fluid is not discharged from the ejection face of the ejection head on at least one side before and after each real absorption operation.