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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2022
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Sumii, Shiojiri, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The liquid ejection apparatus includes a liquid ejection section that ejects liquid onto a medium, a transport belt that transports the medium, a cleaning member that cleans the transport belt by coming into contact with the transport belt, the cleaning member being capable of switching between a contact state in which the cleaning member comes into contact with the transport belt and a separation state in which the cleaning member is separated from the transport belt, and a control section that controls an ejection operation of the liquid, a rotation operation of the transport belt, and switching a state of the cleaning member, when a cleaning operation of cleaning the transport belt by the cleaning member is executed, the control section executes a preliminary ejection that ejects in advance liquid from the liquid ejection section to the transport belt based on preset cleaning control information.