Patent ID: 8439469

Claim:
A liquid ejecting apparatus, comprising: a feeding mechanism configured to feed a recording medium in a feeding direction; a first ejection head including (a) at least one first ejection opening through which is ejected first liquid for forming an image on the recording medium and (b) a first energy generating portion configured to generate an ejection energy for ejecting the first liquid through the at least one first ejection opening; an image-data storage section configured to store image data externally inputted thereto as data for ejecting the first liquid onto a plurality of dot areas into which the recording medium is partitioned such that each of the plurality of dot areas has a first length corresponding to a recording resolution in a direction perpendicular to the feeding direction and a second length corresponding to a recording resolution in the feeding direction; an image-recording controlling section configured to control the first energy generating portion of the first ejection head on the basis of the image data stored in the image-data storage section; a flushing-data producing section configured to produce flushing data for a flushing operation of the first liquid; and a flushing controlling section configured to control the first energy generating portion of the first ejection head such that a flushing dot is formed on the recording medium on the basis of the flushing data which has been produced by the flushing-data producing section, wherein the flushing-data producing section is configured to produce the flushing data such that the flushing dot is landed on one of the plurality of dot areas which is distant, by a specific area equal to or larger than at least one dot area, from an edge dot area which is a dot area corresponding to an edge of the image based on the image data stored in the image-data storage section.