Patent ID: 8292391

Claim:
A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising: a first nozzle row in which first nozzles ejecting a first liquid are arranged in a predetermined direction; a second nozzle row in which second nozzles ejecting a second liquid are arranged in the predetermined direction; a movement mechanism moving the first and second nozzle rows in a movement direction intersecting the predetermined direction relative to a medium; a transport mechanism transporting the medium in the predetermined direction relative to the first and second nozzle rows; and a control unit repeating an image forming operation of ejecting the liquids from the first and second nozzles while moving the first and second nozzle rows in the movement direction by the movement mechanism and a transport operation of transporting the medium in the predetermined direction relative to the first and second nozzle rows by the transport mechanism; wherein when a first image is formed with the first liquid in a given image forming operation and then a second image is formed with the second liquid on the first image in another image forming operation, the control unit sets the first nozzles forming the first image to the nozzles located on an upstream side in the predetermined direction relative to the second nozzles forming the second image in forming the first and second images at a middle portion of the medium, and sets the first nozzles forming the first image to the nozzles located on a downstream side in the predetermined direction relative to the first nozzles, which form the first image at the middle portion of the medium, in forming the first and second images at an upper end portion of the medium.