A liquid ejecting device includes a liquid ejecting unit, a maintenance unit, and a raising and lowering mechanism. The liquid ejecting unit is capable of ejecting liquid. The maintenance unit performs maintenance of the liquid ejecting unit. The raising and lowering mechanism raises and lowers the maintenance unit between a first position and a second position lowered than the first position. The raising and lowering mechanism includes a counterweight and a coupling portion. Both ends of the coupling portion are coupled to coupling destinations so as to raise and lower the counterweight and the maintenance unit in opposite directions to each other via a pulley.

A maintenance unit includes a wiping section 55 configured to wipe the nozzle forming surface 25 of a liquid ejection section 22 in which nozzles for ejecting a first liquid are formed, and a mixed fluid spray section that sprays a mixed fluid of gas and a second liquid from a spray nozzle 93 to moisten the wiping section 55.

The wiping device includes a wiping device 30 configured to wipe a nozzle surface 25 of a liquid ejection head 22 which ejects a liquid, an absorbing member 39 configured to absorb liquid, and a movement mechanism that moves the absorbing member 39 to a contact position Pc configured to contact the nozzle surface 25 and a separated position separate from the nozzle surface 25, wherein the absorbing member 39 includes an impregnated section 56 configured to contact the nozzle surface 25 in a state in which the liquid is impregnated and a wiping section 55 configured to wipe the nozzle surface 25 by moving relative to the liquid ejection head 22.

Disclosed is an inkjet recording apparatus including: a head module including an inkjet head; a wiping cloth for cleaning a head face of the inkjet head; a contact mechanism that causes the wiping cloth to contact and separate from the head face; a wiping cloth conveyor; and a hardware processor. When first and second cleaning operations are performed as two consecutive cleaning operations, an area of the wiping cloth to which ink adheres by the first cleaning operation and an area of the wiping cloth to which ink adheres by the second cleaning operation are first and second ink adhesion areas respectively, in a case where an ink adhesion amount by the first cleaning operation is small, the hardware processor increases an overlapping area of the first and second ink adhesion areas as compared with a case where the ink adhesion amount is large.