Patent ID: 8807683

Claim:
A liquid discharge method comprising: performing in a liquid ejecting apparatus a discharge operation of discharging liquid from each nozzle in a plurality of nozzle arrays, to each of which liquid is supplied from a corresponding container, the plurality of nozzle arrays corresponding to the plurality of containers which respectively contain a plurality of kinds of liquid, the nozzles being arranged in an array direction; detecting whether or not the liquid is discharged from each nozzle by the discharge operation; when it is detected that there is a nozzle which does not discharge liquid in a certain nozzle array, moving a container holding liquid that was being discharged by the certain nozzle array to another location in the liquid ejecting apparatus so that a nozzle array that is different from the certain nozzle array can discharge liquid in the container; and controlling the nozzle array which is different from the certain nozzle array to discharge the liquid to be discharged from the certain nozzle array.