Patent ID: 8070247

Claim:
A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising: a head unit in which a plurality of heads are provided in a direction perpendicular to a recording medium transport direction, each of the plurality of heads having a plurality of nozzles disposed in the direction perpendicular to the recording medium transport direction; a control unit for driving the head unit based on image information and for performing a liquid ejection timing control for each of the plurality of nozzles for ejecting liquid from each of the plurality of nozzles to a recording medium; and an inclination amount storage unit in which inclination information of the head unit is stored, wherein the control unit has a calculator for calculating the most appropriate ejection timing with respect to the recording medium transport direction for each of the plurality of nozzles of each of the plurality of heads, based on the image information and the inclination information of the head unit, and the control unit has a selector for calculating a shift amount in the direction perpendicular to the recording medium transport direction from the image information and the inclination information of the head unit and for selecting a nozzle disposed at the most appropriate position for ejecting liquid based on the shift amount.