Recording apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsSho Aruga, Tomoya Kurashina, Nobuhiko Shinozaki, Soshi Okawa
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Abstract
A recording apparatus includes a liquid ejection head including a plurality of nozzles configured to eject a liquid onto a medium, the liquid ejection head being elongated in a medium width direction that is a direction intersecting a medium transport direction, a facing portion disposed to face the liquid ejection head, and a wiper configured to wipe a head surface of the liquid ejection head while moving in the medium width direction, and the wiper is provided on a wiper carriage that moves in the medium width direction using power from a first motor, and an edge detection unit for detecting an edge of the medium is included at a position facing the facing unit in the wiper carriage.
Claims6
A recording apparatus, comprising:
- a liquid ejection head including a plurality of nozzles configured to eject a liquid onto a medium, the liquid ejection head being elongated in a medium width direction that is a direction intersecting a medium transport direction;
- a facing portion disposed to face the liquid ejection head;
- and
- a wiper configured to wipe a head surface of the liquid ejection head while moving in the medium width direction, wherein
- the wiper is provided at a wiper carriage that moves in the medium width direction using power from a first motor, and
- an edge detection unit for detecting an edge of the medium is included at a position facing the facing unit in the wiper carriage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.