公开(公告)号：US20170225454A1

公开(公告)日：2017-08-10

申请号：US15422208

申请日：2017-02-01

Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Inventor： Takeshi YOSHIDA

IPC: B41J2/045 ,  B41J2/175

CPC classification number: B41J2/0451 ,  B41J2/04578 ,  B41J2/04581 ,  B41J2/17566 ,  B41J2002/14354 ,  B41J2002/17569

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting unit that has a plurality of nozzles and performs a recording process by ejecting liquid drops from the nozzles to a recording medium, an ejection abnormality detecting unit that detects ejection abnormality in the nozzles, a counting unit that counts the number of liquid ejections to be performed using the nozzles in the recording process as the number of scheduled ejections, and a calculation unit that calculates a usage amount of liquid in the recording process as a liquid usage amount on the basis of the number of scheduled ejections which is counted by the counting unit and a state of the ejection abnormality which is detected by the ejection abnormality detecting unit.