Patent ID: 8562094

Claim:
A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising: an ejecting head comprising liquid-ejecting nozzles; a platen disposed to support a recording medium and face the ejecting head; a movement section that moves the ejecting head relative to the platen back and forth along a path, wherein the path comprises a first non-printing area at a first end of the path, a second non-printing area at a second end of the path, and a printing area disposed between the first and second non-printing areas; a heater that heats the platen; a temperature sensor, wherein, when the movement section has moved the ejecting head out of the printing area into one of the non-printing areas, the temperature sensor is triggered to detect a first temperature of the ejecting head; a driving waveform generation section that generates a driving waveform to drive the ejecting head in accordance with the first temperature; and a liquid ejection control section that supplies the driving waveform to the ejecting head to eject liquid for printing on the recording medium in the printing area, wherein the ejecting head does not eject liquid onto the medium in the first and second non-printing areas.