Patent ID: 8002379

Claim:
A droplet discharging device for drawing by discharging a liquid as droplets on a work from an discharging head in accordance with a main scan for relatively moving the work and the discharging head facing each other, comprising: a plurality of carriages each mounting a plurality of the discharging heads; a table support section having an absorption table, the work being set on the absorption table; a first slider that supports the table support section; a weighing mechanism for measuring weight of the discharged liquid for every discharging head; a second slider that supports the weighing mechanism; and a main scan moving mechanism for moving the weighing mechanism and the table support section in a direction of the main scan independently from each other and for slidably moving the first slider and the second slider, wherein the weighing mechanism includes: a first droplet receiving section provided for each of the plurality of carriages and capable of receiving the droplet discharged from at least one of the discharging heads, and a second droplet receiving section disposed in accordance with an arrangement of the plurality of discharging heads mounted on the plurality of carriages so as to surround the first droplet receiving section.