LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND DETECTION METHOD OF LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS

Abstract: a liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting portion having a nozzle ejecting a liquid onto a medium, a liquid storage portion that stores the liquid, a supply flow path through which the liquid storage portion communicates with the liquid ejecting portion, an opening/closing mechanism having an opening/closing portion bringing the supply flow path into an open state or a closed state and an operation portion operating the opening/closing portion, a carriage mounted with the liquid ejecting portion and the opening/closing mechanism and configured to reciprocate in a main scanning direction, a contact portion that comes in contact with the opening/closing mechanism when the carriage moves while the supply flow path is in the closed state, and a detection portion that detects contact between the opening/closing mechanism and the contact portion.

Inventor(s): Seiji TOJO

CPC Classification: B41J2/17596 (characterised by ink handling {(cleaning by driving a fluid through the nozzles to the outside thereof ; for treating before, during or after printing or for uniform coating or laminating the copy material before or after printing )})

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