Patent ID: 8864258

Claim:
A liquid ejecting apparatus which includes a pressure chamber filled with liquid and a pressure generating element changing pressure inside the pressure chamber and ejects the liquid from a nozzle according to the change of pressure inside the pressure chamber, the apparatus comprising: a driving control unit that controls the pressure generating element and performs ejection driving for ejecting the liquid from the nozzle or micro-vibration driving for micro-vibrating the liquid surface inside the nozzle to an extent at which the liquid is not ejected from the nozzle; and a control unit that performs a flushing operation of an ejection amount after a predetermined driving period has passed, wherein the ejection amount is determined based on a number of times the micro-vibration driving is performed by the driving control unit within the predetermined driving period that has passed, wherein the driving control unit stops the ejection driving and the micro-vibration driving in a driving period in which the liquid is not ejected, and the control unit sets the ejection amount in the flushing operation performed after passing of the driving period in which the liquid is not ejected to be less than an ejection amount in the flushing operation after passing of a driving period in which micro-vibration driving is performed one or more times.