Recording device
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorShinya Yamazaki
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Abstract
A recording device includes a recording head configured to discharge ink onto a recording medium to perform recording, a carriage mounted with the recording head, and configured to perform scanning, a liquid receiving portion disposed so as to face the recording head, so that the recording head discards the ink into the liquid receiving portion, a distance sensor configured to measure a position of a top portion in a vertical direction of a deposit formed by the ink deposited in the liquid receiving portion, and a control unit configured to determine, based on a result of the measurement by the distance sensor, whether the deposit in the liquid receiving portion needs to be removed.
Claims8
A recording device, comprising:
- a recording head configured to discharge liquid onto a recording medium to perform recording;
- a carriage mounted with the recording head, and configured to perform scanning;
- a liquid receiving portion disposed so as to face the recording head so that the recording head discards the liquid into the liquid receiving portion;
- a measurement unit configured to measure a position of a top portion in a vertical direction of a deposit formed by the liquid deposited in the liquid receiving portion;
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- a control unit configured to determine, based on a result of the measurement by the measurement unit, whether the deposit in the liquid receiving portion needs to be removed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.