Patent ID: 8668309
Filing Date: 2014-03-11
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A fluid ejecting apparatus comprising: a first nozzle row in which nozzles for ejecting a first fluid are lined up in a predetermined direction; a second nozzle row in which nozzles for ejecting a second fluid are lined up in the predetermined direction and which is lined up in a movement direction intersecting the predetermined direction with respect to the first nozzle row; and a control unit which sets a uni-directional printing or a bi-directional printing, to form an image on a medium, wherein, the uni-directional printing includes: wherein, a bi-directional printing includes: wherein the control unit sets the uni-directional printing when formation of a main image with the first fluid by a nozzle group of a part of the first nozzle row and formation of a background image with the second fluid by a nozzle group of a part of the second nozzle row are performed to overlap the main image and the background image with each other on the medium, wherein, in the uni-directional printing, a time needed to perform a returning operation of relatively moving the relative positions of the first and second nozzle rows and the medium in the other direction of the movement direction and not ejecting fluid from the nozzle is longer than a time needed to perform the moving operation once.