A waste liquid container for collecting waste liquid ejected from a liquid ejection head that ejects liquid, including a receiving member that has a receiving surface on which the waste liquid drips and a waste liquid absorbing member configured to absorb the waste liquid, wherein the waste liquid is flowable over the receiving surface and the receiving surface has a surface energy distribution for flowing the waste liquid to the waste liquid absorbing member.

A liquid ejection device includes: a casing; a holder for rotatably supporting a sheet roll including a continuous sheet; a power transmission mechanism positioned beside the holder for transmitting a rotational driving force thereto; a cartridge attachment portion for receiving a cartridge; a conveying mechanism for conveying the continuous sheet to a discharge opening on a front surface of the casing; a head; and a maintenance unit. The holder supporting the sheet roll is rotatable about a rotation axis extending in a leftward/rightward direction. The cartridge and the holder are detachably attachable to the casing through an opening thereof. The cartridge attachment portion and the power transmission mechanism are positioned at the same side of the holder in the leftward/rightward direction. An occupying range of the maintenance unit is across respective occupying ranges of the cartridge attachment portion and the power transmission mechanism in the leftward/rightward direction.

A cap device includes a cap, an accommodation member, and a cover. The cap covers a nozzle surface of a liquid ejection head. The accommodation member is accommodated in the cap and is fixed to the cap. The accommodation member has a conductivity and receives a voltage that generates a potential difference between the liquid ejection head and the accommodation member. The accommodation member includes a first portion and a second portion connected with each other. The cover covers the second portion of the accommodation member, and has a surface that is co-planar with a surface of the first portion. The cover has a conductivity and receives a voltage that generates a potential difference between the liquid ejection head and the cover.

A liquid ejecting device includes a liquid ejecting portion configured to eject liquid from a nozzle, a closed space forming portion having a porous member inside thereof, and configured to form a closed space in which the nozzle opens, an discharging portion configured to discharge the liquid in the closed space forming portion, and a control portion configured to, when an amount of the liquid ejected from the liquid ejecting portion into the closed space forming portion reaches a prescribed value, cause the discharging portion to discharge the liquid in the closed space forming portion, wherein the control unit decreases the prescribed value as the number of stops increases, the number of stops being the number of times the liquid ejecting portion is stopped for a prescribed time or longer at a position other than a closed position where the closed space is formed.

Since a head part is arranged in an inclined posture, the ink ejected from a nozzle surface of the head part may drip to a first lower surface peripheral edge portion along the nozzle surface, and then drops from a first long side of a lower surface of the head part toward a first side wall of a cover member being arranged below the head part. The first side wall having an upper end portion is located away from the first long side. Thus, the dropped ink is collected by the cover member without being attached to the upper end portion of the first side wall. Therefore, the ink can be prevented from being solidified at the first lower surface peripheral edge portion and the reattachment of the ink to the nozzle surface can be effectively prevented.

A recording device includes a device body, a recording unit configured to record by ejecting liquid onto a medium, a waste liquid collecting unit configured to collect waste liquid generated inside the device body, a waste liquid storage unit configured to store the waste liquid collected via the waste liquid collecting unit, wherein the waste liquid storage unit is configured to be mountable to and removable from the device body and the waste liquid collecting unit includes a discharge portion configured to discharge the collected waste liquid to the waste liquid storage unit, and the discharge portion has a dam portion for blocking the waste liquid.

A waste liquid collection unit is located over a print medium in a discharge direction of a liquid discharge head. The collection unit includes an absorber; a tray housing the absorber exposed to a nozzle surface of the head; and a pressing member to press the absorber toward a bottom surface of the tray. The pressing member includes a base material extending in an alignment direction of nozzles and end members connected to ends of the base material and displaceable to be biased to an inner wall surface of the tray in an axial direction when the pressing member is placed in the tray. The end members include a first fitting portion in a surface facing the inner wall surface. The tray includes a second fitting portion in the inner wall surface. The first and second fitting portions are fitted when the pressing member is placed in the tray.

A determination signal indicates whether each of a plurality of nozzles of a liquid ejection head is an abnormal nozzle. A controller stores, in a memory, information on a nozzle determined to be the abnormal nozzle among the plurality of nozzles; in response to receiving a particular signal and determining that the memory does not store abnormality flag information and that the number of the abnormal nozzle stored in the memory is larger than a first threshold value, control a recovery device to perform a recovery operation; and in response to receiving the particular signal and determining that the memory stores the abnormality flag information and that the number of the abnormal nozzle is larger than a second threshold value, control the recovery device to perform the recovery operation. The second threshold value is smaller than the first threshold value.

A switching mechanism includes a first rotating body that performs forward rotation and reverse rotation by receiving a driving force transmitted from a driving source; and a second rotating body having convex portions provided on an outer circumference at intervals. The first rotating body has an engagement portion configured to move along the outer circumference of the second rotating body. When the first rotating body rotates in a forward direction, engagement of the engagement portion with the convex portion causes rotation of the second rotating body in the forward direction together with the first rotating body. When the first rotating body rotates in a reverse direction, the engagement portion moves along the outer circumference of the second rotating body so that the second rotating body does not rotate in the reverse direction. A first interval, which is at least one of the intervals, is larger than other intervals.

There is provided a liquid ejecting apparatus including: a liquid ejecting head having an ejection surface including a first nozzle row configure to eject a first ink and a second nozzle row configure to eject a second ink; and a support configured to support the liquid ejecting head in an inclined posture in which the ejection surface is inclined with respect to a horizontal plane, in which the first nozzle row is positioned above the second nozzle row with respect to a vertical direction in a state where the support supports the liquid ejecting head in the inclined posture, one or both of the first ink and the second ink contain a moisturizer, and a thickening resistance of the first ink is higher than a thickening resistance of the second ink.