Patent ID: 7481515

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a color filter that includes filter elements arranged over a substrate, while scanning one of the substrate and a head relative to the other of the substrate and the head along a main scanning direction and while discharging a filter material from a plurality of nozzles in a nozzle row of the head to the substrate to draw the filter material in a predetermined position of a color filter formation area, the method comprising: a first main scanning step of drawing by scanning multiple times, the first main canning step drawing a first crossing region, formed by the nozzle row and the substrate crossing by a first scanning, and a second crossing region, formed by the nozzle row and the substrate crossing by a second scanning, the first crossing region does not overlap the second crossing region; and a second main scanning step of drawing in the color filter formation area of the first main scanning step by scanning multiple times, the second main scanning step drawing a third crossing region, formed by the nozzle row and the substrate crossing by a third scanning, and a fourth crossing region, formed by the nozzle row and the substrate crossing by a fourth scanning, the third crossing region does not overlap the fourth scanning region, and during the second main scanning step at least a portion of the nozzle row overlaps with a drawing region of the first main scanning step, a boundary between the third crossing region and the fourth crossing region does not overlap with a boundary between the first crossing region and the second crossing region.