Patent ID: 8651620

Claim:
An ejection liquid dryness suppressing device comprising: a liquid ejecting unit including a plurality of nozzles which ejects an ejection liquid from a plurality of nozzle openings formed in a nozzle formation surface, a common liquid chamber which communicates with the plurality of nozzles and supplies the ejection liquid to the plurality of nozzles, and a supply port through which the ejection liquid is supplied to the common liquid chamber; and a nozzle contact unit having a contact surface which is able to come into contact with the nozzle formation surface during a contact state, the contact surface coming into close contact with nozzle formation surface to block the plurality of nozzle openings during the contact state and wherein during a separation state, where the contact surface separates from the nozzle formation surface, the contact surface first separates from the nozzle opening having a shortest flow passage length from the supply port via the common liquid chamber, the contact surface then sequentially separating from the nozzle opening with the next shortest flow passage length to the nozzle opening with the longest flow passage length.