Patent ID: 8807674

Claim:
A liquid droplet ejecting apparatus, comprising: a droplet ejection head which includes liquid passages having at their leading ends ejection openings which eject droplets, an ejection face which faces a recording medium onto which droplets ejected from the ejection openings are placed, and an actuator which applies energy to liquid inside the liquid passages; an absorber which includes a plurality of liquid absorbent facing portions, which face the ejection openings, respectively, when the absorber faces the ejection face; a moving mechanism which moves the droplet ejection head and the absorber relatively to each other such that the droplet ejection head and the absorber are positioned in an absorbing position where the ejection openings face the liquid absorbent facing portions, respectively; and a controller which controls the moving mechanism to position the droplet ejection head and the absorber in the absorbing position, and while controlling the moving mechanism to cause the droplet ejection head and the absorber to stop relatively to each other in the absorbing position, controls the actuator to apply to the liquid in the liquid passages energy falling short for droplet ejection from each of the ejection opening thereby having a meniscus formed on each of the ejection openings contact each of the liquid absorbent facing portions; and wherein, when more than N number of recording media are to be continuously recorded (where N is an integer of not less than 2), the controller controls the moving mechanism to position the droplet ejection head and the absorber in the absorbing position after completion of recording to the N-th recording medium and before performing recording to the (N+1) recording medium, and while controlling the moving mechanism to cause the droplet election head and the absorber to stop relatively to each other in the absorbing position, controls the actuator to apply to the liquid inside the liquid passages energy falling short for droplet ejection from each of the ejection openings thereby having a meniscus formed on each of the ejection openings contact each of the liquid absorbent facing portions.