Patent ID: 8550586
Filing Date: 2013-10-08
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising: a liquid ejecting head which has nozzles and ejects liquid from the nozzles onto a liquid-ejected medium on the basis of liquid ejection data; a carriage which carries the liquid ejecting head and moves in the width direction of the liquid-ejected medium; and a control section which has a first carriage movement mode which determines a stop position of the carriage in a movement of this time (the n-th time) to be at a given position in the width direction, on the basis of a size in the width direction of the liquid-ejected medium regardless of the liquid ejection data in a movement of the next time (the (n+1)th time) of the carriage, and a second carriage movement mode which determines a stop position of the carriage in movement of this time (the n-th time) on the basis of at least one of the liquid ejection data in the movement of this time (the n-th time) and the liquid ejection data in the movement of the next time (the (n+1)th time) regardless of a size in the width direction of the liquid-ejected medium, and selects one of the first carriage movement mode or the second carriage movement mode in accordance with the type of liquid-ejected medium.