Patent ID: 8684488

Claim:
A liquid ejecting device, which is configured to eject droplets of liquid onto a surface of a recording medium to record an image, comprising: a conveyer, which is configured to convey the recording medium in a conveyer path along a conveying direction; a plurality of liquid ejecting heads, each of which includes a plurality of nozzles configured to eject the droplets of liquid onto the surface of the recording medium being conveyed by the conveyer; a liquid purging unit, which is configured to purge the liquid out of the nozzles of the plurality of liquid ejecting heads; a detector unit, which is arranged in at least one predetermined position along the conveyer path and configured to detect presence of the recording medium in the conveyer path; a storage unit, which is configured to store information concerning the length of the recording medium being conveyed along the conveying direction; a judging unit, which is configured to judge whether the recording medium being conveyed is jammed in the conveyer path based on timing when the presence of the recording medium is detected by the detector unit; a head identifier unit, which is configured to identify an overlapping liquid ejecting head assumedly facing the recording medium jammed in the conveyer path amongst the plurality of liquid ejecting heads, when the judging unit determines that the recording medium is jammed in the conveyer path, based on the detected result obtained by the detector unit and the information concerning the length of the recording medium stored in the storage unit; and a purge controller unit, which is configured to manipulate the liquid purging unit to control an amount of the liquid to be purged from the nozzles in the remaining liquid ejecting heads other than the overlapping liquid ejecting head identified by the head identifier unit to be smaller than an amount of the liquid to be purged from the nozzles in the overlapping liquid ejecting head identified by the head identifier unit.