US 11,787,186 B2
Printing apparatus
Masaki Shimomura, Matsumoto (JP); and Seiya Sato, Matsumoto (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/487,867.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-162954 (JP), filed on Sep. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0097382 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 2/165 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/16538 (2013.01) [B41J 2/16588 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a recording section that is configured to perform recording on a medium by ejecting a liquid from an ejection surface, the recording section configured to move in a first movement direction between a recording position where recording on the medium is performed and a retreat position where recording on the medium is not performed, the retreat position being different from the recording position, the first movement direction being a direction that is orthogonal to the ejection surface; and
a maintenance section that is configured to move, in a second movement direction intersecting the first movement direction, between first position at which the maintenance section is configured to contact the ejection surface so as to perform a maintenance operation for the recording section and a second position away from the first position where the maintenance section does not contact the ejection surface,
wherein at least one permitting section is formed in the maintenance section, the at least one permitting section permitting a portion of the recording section to move in the first movement direction in a state in which the maintenance section is at the second position.