Liquid ejecting apparatus and maintenance method

摘要

A movable member configured to move when a liquid ejecting apparatus is inclined from a posture to be taken when ejecting liquid upon receipt of an action of the gravitational force and a memory unit configured to store the fact that the movable member is moved in response to abutment with the moved movable member are provided and the presence or absence of the movement of the movable member is acquired after the power has been turned ON. Accordingly, a change of the posture of the liquid ejecting apparatus in a power OFF state can be determined after the fact after the power has been turned ON.

主权项

1. A liquid ejecting apparatus configured to eject ink from an ejection nozzle comprising:
a movable member provided so as to be movable with respect to the liquid ejecting apparatus and configured to move when the liquid ejecting apparatus is inclined by an action of the gravitational force from a posture taken when ejecting the liquid; and a determining unit configured to determine the direction of movement of the moveable member; a maintenance unit configured to execute a maintenance operation on an ejection head; a maintenance memory unit configured to store a plurality of maintenance operations in one-to-one correspondence with the directions of movement of the movable member as maintenance operations to be performed on the ejection head; and the maintenance unit reads out the maintenance operation corresponding to the direction of movement of the moved movable member from among a plurality of the maintenance operations when the direction of movement is determined by the determining unit, and executes the read-out maintenance operation.