Patent ID: 8240840
Filing Date: 2012-08-14
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising: a plurality of nozzles arranged in an array; a light-emitting portion that emits ultraviolet light; and a control portion that alternately and repetitively performs a transporting operation of transporting a medium in a transporting direction relative to the nozzles and a dot-group formation operation of forming a dot group in the transporting direction on the medium by ejecting a liquid toward the medium from the nozzles so as to form the dot group in a plurality in the transporting direction while the nozzles travel in a crosswise direction, and that also performs a light-emitting operation every time the control portion performs the dot-group formation operation, the light-emitting operation being performed by causing the light-emitting portion to emit the ultraviolet light toward each dot group to cure the dot group, wherein, during the light-emitting operation, at least one of two ends of the dot group in the transporting direction is exposed to the ultraviolet light emitted from the light-emitting portion at a timing later than a timing at which a midsection of the dot group in the transporting direction is exposed to the ultraviolet light emitted from the light-emitting portion.