Patent ID: 8403454

Claim:
A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising: a liquid ejecting head unit that includes a head-fixing member to which a plurality of liquid ejecting heads is attached in a row, each of the plurality of liquid ejecting heads having a nozzle surface and being capable of ejecting liquid toward a liquid ejection target medium from nozzles that are formed in the nozzle surface; a protection member that is located outside the row of the liquid ejecting heads adjacent to a liquid ejecting head included in the liquid ejecting heads, the liquid ejecting head being located at an end in a direction in which the liquid ejecting heads are arranged in the row, the direction being hereinafter referred to as side-by-side-arrangement direction, the protection member being provided thereat for protecting a side of the adjacent liquid ejecting head; and a cap group that is made up of a plurality of caps for covering the nozzles, the number of the caps being the same as that of the liquid ejecting heads of the liquid ejecting head unit, the caps being arranged in the side-by-side-arrangement direction with the same gap each therebetween as the gap of the liquid ejecting heads each therebetween, wherein a relative position of the cap group and the liquid ejecting heads of the liquid ejecting head unit can be shifted in parallel with respect to the side-by-side-arrangement direction, a state of the cap group can be changed into a state in which a cap included in the cap group is in contact with the nozzle surface; the protection member has an inclined plane at a front-end portion, the inclined plane being sloped up from a liquid-ejecting-head side toward the opposite side, that is, outward, with respect to the side-by-side-arrangement direction, a recess is formed at a part of the inclined plane, and in a state in which one of the caps faces the protection member and, in addition, each of the remaining caps is in contact with the nozzle surface of the liquid ejecting head, a part of the cap facing the protection member is in the recess, which ensures that the cap is not in contact with the protection member.