A recording apparatus includes a liquid container configured to contain, outside a recording area of the recording apparatus, liquid to be supplied to a recording head configured to perform recording by discharging the liquid to a recording medium in the recording area, a maintenance unit disposed outside the recording area, including a suction unit configured to suck the liquid from the recording head, and configured to carry out maintenance of the recording head, and a liquid reservoir portion below the liquid container and the maintenance unit.

A printing device includes a printing portion, a maintenance portion, and a controller. The printing portion includes an ejection head and prints using ink. The maintenance portion performs maintenance on the ejection head. The maintenance involves consumption of ink. The controller has a manual maintenance mode and an automated maintenance mode. In the manual maintenance mode, the controller executes a maintenance using the maintenance portion in response to a maintenance command signal based on a manual operation. In the automated maintenance mode, the controller automatically executes a maintenance using the maintenance portion in response to a maintenance execution condition being met. Based on control information acquired, the controller switches an operating mode of the printing device from a first operating mode of selectively executing the manual maintenance mode and the automated maintenance mode to a second operation mode of executing the automated maintenance mode without executing the manual maintenance mode.

The object of the present disclosure is to implement capturing of mist. One embodiment of the present invention is a printing apparatus including: a carriage, on which a print head that ejects a liquid is mounted, configured to reciprocate within a predetermined range in a second direction intersecting with a first direction; a partition member configured to partition an inside of the casing in the first direction into a first space in which the carriage reciprocates and a second space in which the carriage does not reciprocate; a first communication unit provided within the predetermined range in the second direction and configured to cause the first space and the second space to communicate with each other; and a second communication unit provided outside the first communication unit in the second direction and configured to cause the first space and the second space to communicate with each other.

This invention aims to propose a structure excellent in the maintenance operability of a cleaning member in a printing apparatus provided with the cleaning member for cleaning at least one of a wiper and a cap. In a printing apparatus according to the invention, a cleaning member for cleaning a wiper or a cap of a maintenance part is integrated with a printing head in a relative movement between the printing head and the maintenance part and arranged to at least partially overlap a movement path of the object to be cleaned with respect to the printing head and moves to outside the conveyance path integrally with the printing head when the printing head is moved from the inside position to the outside position.

A maintenance method and a liquid discharge apparatus. The maintenance method is performed by a liquid discharge apparatus including a first liquid discharge head to discharge ink, a second liquid discharge head to discharge pretreatment liquid, and a liquid receiver into which the ink and the pretreatment liquid are discharged, and the maintenance method includes flushing the ink and the pretreatment liquid into the liquid receiver, the flushing including discharging the ink into the liquid receiver and then discharging the pretreatment liquid into the liquid receiver. The liquid discharge apparatus includes the first liquid discharge head, the second liquid discharge head, the liquid receiver, and a controller to control the first liquid discharge head and the second liquid discharge head to discharge the pretreatment liquid onto a print medium and then discharge the ink onto the print medium.

A movement section is configured to move one of the liquid discharge section and the maintenance section toward another of the liquid discharge section and the maintenance section in a first direction. A maintenance section includes first and second positioning sections that perform positioning of the maintenance section and the liquid discharge section by coming into contact with the liquid discharge section. The first positioning section is provided at a position farther than the second positioning section in a second direction intersecting with a first direction with, as a reference, an action point at which the movement section acts on the one of the liquid discharge section and the maintenance section. The first positioning section comes into contact with the liquid discharge section before the second positioning section when the one of the liquid discharge section and the maintenance section moves toward the other.

A maintenance device includes a cap, a cap moving portion, a suction portion, a switching portion, and a drive transmission unit, wherein the drive transmission unit includes a drive source, a first transmission mechanism, and a second transmission mechanism, the first transmission mechanism includes a first drive delay unit that does not transmit driving of the drive source even when the drive source drives by a certain amount when the drive source performs switching of the switching portion via the second transmission mechanism, and the second transmission mechanism includes a second drive delay unit that does not transmit driving of the drive source even when the drive source drives by a certain amount when the drive source performs moving of the cap via the first transmission mechanism.

A driving mechanism moves a moving unit in a predetermined direction and an opposite direction that is opposite to the predetermined direction. The driving mechanism includes a worm that is coupled to a driving source and rotates to move the moving unit, a worm wheel that is meshed with the worm, and a holding portion that holds the worm. The holding portion includes a highly-regulating portion that contacts with the worm when the moving unit moves in the predetermined direction, and a weakly-regulating portion that contacts with the worm when the moving unit moves in the opposite direction. A friction coefficient between the highly-regulating portion and the worm is greater than a friction coefficient between the weak regulation portion and the worm.

A recording device has: a recording section that discharges a liquid to a medium for recording purposes; a maintenance unit that abuts the recording section and performs maintenance of the recording section; a first moving section that causes the recording section to abut the maintenance unit and separates the recording section from the maintenance unit; and a restricting section that can suppress movement of the recording section toward the maintenance unit after the recording section abuts the maintenance unit. The first moving section has a driving source and a worm gear that transmits the power of the driving source. A force with which the driving source causes the recording section to abut the maintenance unit is smaller than a force with which the driving source separates the recording section from the maintenance unit.

A printing apparatus includes a medium support unit having a support surface that supports at least a printing region of a medium, a medium accommodation unit configured to store a region of the medium that is not supported by the support surface, a head configured to eject a liquid onto the medium supported by the support surface, and a head moving unit configured to move the head. The medium support unit is configured not to move in a direction parallel to the support surface, and the head moving unit moves the head in a direction parallel to the support surface.