Patent ID: 7878632

Claim:
A liquid ejection apparatus, comprising: a head which ejects liquid; a carriage which conveys the head; a sub tank which is mounted on the carriage, accommodates the liquid to be supplied to the head, and has an elastic film deforming elastically in accordance with supply of the liquid to the head; a liquid flow channel opening and closing valve which opens and closes a first liquid flow channel between the head and the sub tank; a main tank which stores the liquid to be supplied to the sub tank; a liquid supply coupling section which couples a second liquid flow channel connected to the main tank, to the sub tank, in a state where the carriage is located in a predetermined home position; and an elastic film movement device which includes an actuator that moves the elastic film of the sub tank, the elastic film movement device driving the actuator to move the elastic film in a direction which causes the elastic film to recover from elastic deformation to assist deformation recovery of the elastic film, in a state where the first liquid flow channel is closed by means of the liquid flow channel opening and closing valve and the second liquid flow channel is coupled to the sub tank by means of the liquid supply coupling section.