Patent ID: 7354132

Claim:
A liquid ejecting apparatus, comprising: a liquid ejecting head, having nozzle orifices for ejecting liquid therefrom; and a controller, which performs a recovery operation, wherein the recovery operation is performed by using at least a flushing operation in which the liquid drops are ejected from the nozzle orifices and a cleaning operation in which a negative pressure is applied to the nozzle orifices; wherein an operation condition of the flushing operation is set in accordance with leaving time from the preceding cleaning operation and total printing time after the preceding cleaning operation; wherein an operation condition of the cleaning operation is set in accordance with the number of times the flushing operation is executed after the preceding cleaning operations; wherein a first negative pressure is applied to the nozzle orifices in the cleaning operation flushing operation is executed a first number of times; and wherein a second negative pressure which is higher than the first negative pressure is applied to the nozzle orifices in the cleaning operation when the flushing operation is executed a second number of times which is greater than the first number of times.