Patent ID: 8668293

Claim:
A liquid ejecting apparatus that ejects liquid from an ejecting nozzle provided in an ejecting head, the liquid ejecting apparatus comprising: a first container that contains a first liquid; a second container that contains a second liquid that is supplied to the ejecting head in order to maintain a state in which the liquid is ejectable from the ejecting nozzle; a channel that selectively communicates with either the first or second container to supply the liquid contained therein to the ejecting head; a switching unit that performs a switching operation of switching between a first communicating state in which the channel communicates with the first container and a second communicating state in which the channel communicates with the second container; a liquid replacing unit that, when the switching operation is performed by the switching unit, causes the ejecting head to discharge the liquid having been supplied from the container that communicated with the ejecting head through the channel before the switching operation was performed, and causes the ejecting head to be supplied with the liquid contained in the container that newly communicated with the ejecting head through the channel using the switching operation; a remaining amount detecting unit that detects a remaining amount of the second liquid contained in the second container; and a switching operation prohibiting unit that, if the remaining amount detected by the remaining amount detecting unit is less than a predetermined value, wherein the predetermined value is larger than a sum of inner volumes of the channel and the liquid ejecting head, prohibits the switching unit from performing the switching operation of switching from the second communicating state to the first communicating state.