Patent ID: 8727491

Claim:
A fluid ejecting apparatus comprising: a fluid ejecting head that has a nozzle formation surface and ejects fluid from a nozzle that is formed as a hole through the nozzle formation surface; a fluid catching section that has an opening that faces the nozzle formation surface of the fluid ejecting head at the time of flushing, which is ejection of the fluid from the nozzle of the fluid ejecting head as waste fluid, the fluid catching section receiving the fluid that has been ejected from the nozzle as the waste fluid and enters through the opening; a cover mechanism that includes a cover member that can move between two positions, which are a cover position and a retracted position, the cover position being a position at which the cover member can close or closes the opening of the fluid catching section, the retracted position being a position at which the cover member can not or does not close the opening during the flushing; a negative pressure generating section that generates negative pressure inside the fluid catching section when the cover member is positioned at the cover position and when the opening of the fluid catching section does not face the nozzle formation surface of the fluid ejecting head; and a moving section that moves the fluid ejecting head and/or the fluid catching section relative to each other in a direction in which the fluid ejecting head and the fluid catching section approach each other and in a direction in which the fluid ejecting head and the fluid catching section become distanced from each other, wherein the negative pressure generating section is provided at one side in a scan direction of the moving section and the fluid catching section is provided at the other side in the scan direction such that the negative pressure generating section operates to provide negative pressure inside the fluid catching section when the negative pressure generation section is pressed by fluid ejecting head being moved by the moving section.