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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
May. 20, 2011
Yoshiyuki Kurebayashi, Chiba, JP;
Yoichi Yamada, Shiojiri, JP;
Yoshiyuki Kurebayashi, Chiba, JP;
Yoichi Yamada, Shiojiri, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printer includes a fluid ejecting head having a plurality of nozzles, an ink supply channel and a maintenance device. The maintenance device includes a pressure regulating mechanism configured to reduce the pressures in the interiors of the ink supply channels at a position of pressure reduction, and a tight cap being brought into abutment with the fluid ejecting head so that the nozzle openings of the nozzles which receives a supply of ink through flow channels which are subject to relatively small pressure losses first by priority according to the magnitudes of the pressure losses in the respective flow channels extending from the position of pressure reduction to the respective nozzles.