Patent ID: 8622507

Claim:
A control method for a fluid ejection device that performs, at home position, at least one of a cleaning operation that suctions fluid from a plurality of nozzles and a wiping operation that wipes a nozzle surface in which the plurality of nozzles are disposed when missing dots result from one or more of the plurality of nozzles for ejecting fluid not ejecting fluid droplets, comprising: a missing dot detection step that tests for missing dots and determines if missing dots occur; an elimination history detection step that, when the missing dot detection step determines there are missing dots, determines if a history of eliminating missing dots by means of the wiping operation remains; a wiping step that performs the wiping operation when the elimination history detection step determines the elimination history does not remain; and a cleaning step that performs the cleaning operation without performing the wiping operation when the elimination history detection step determines the elimination history remains.