Patent ID: 7837320

Claim:
A liquid droplet ejection apparatus comprising: a liquid droplet ejection head that ejects liquid droplets; a conveyor belt that retains and conveys a recording medium while causing the recording medium to face the liquid droplet ejection head; a charge roll that applies a charge to the recording medium and causes the recording medium to be electrostatically attracted to the conveyor belt; and a link mechanism including a support member and a feeding roll that is linked to the support member, the feeding roll being pushed down by a distance substantially equal to the thickness of the recording medium as the recording medium is fed over the feeding roll and the support member is caused to support the charge roll away from the conveyor belt such that a gap is formed between the charge roll and the conveyor belt having a distance that is a constant proportion of the thickness of the recording medium; wherein the charge roll and the conveyor belt are configured to not contact each other, and a gap between the charge roll and the conveyor belt is less than the thickness of the recording medium so that the charge roll presses the recording medium against the conveyor belt.