Patent ID: 8714102

Claim:
An electro-optical device, comprising: a substrate; and a color filter formed upon the substrate, the color filter formed by a plurality of discharge apparatuses, wherein: each of the plurality of discharge apparatuses comprises first nozzles and second nozzles, the first nozzles actually discharge a liquid containing a filter material for the color filter onto the substrate, the second nozzles are positioned at both ends of at least one of the discharge apparatuses, the second nozzles do not actually discharge the liquid containing the filter material for the color filter onto the substrate so as to avoid relatively unstable discharge, the second nozzles of one of the discharge apparatuses overlaps with the first nozzles of another discharge apparatus in the X axis direction, a holding apparatus holds and arranges the discharge apparatuses so that at least two of the first nozzles on separate rows are linearly-arranged along a main scanning direction and discharge the same liquid to form the color filter, and the plurality of discharge apparatus are arranged in alternate two rows in the direction orthogonal to the main scanning direction on the holding apparatus.