Patent ID: 8864259

Claim:
A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising: a nozzle column in which a plurality of nozzles configured to eject a liquid cured by receiving an irradiation of light is arranged in a predetermined direction parallel to a transportation direction of a medium, the nozzle column including a first region having a plurality of the plurality of nozzles and a second region having another plurality of the plurality of nozzles that incorporates the first region; an irradiation section disposed along the predetermined direction corresponding to the nozzle column and configured to irradiate the light to dots formed on the medium by the nozzle column, the irradiation section including a third region corresponding to the first region and a fourth region corresponding to the second region, where a variation in a quantity of the light irradiated from the third region of the irradiation section is within a predetermined range and where a variation in a quantity of the light irradiated from the fourth region of the irradiation section is within a range larger than the predetermined range; and a controller configured to control ejecting of the liquid from the nozzle column and irradiation of the dots in a first print mode and a second print mode, the second print mode creating an image quality lower than that of an image quality of the first print mode, wherein at a time of the first print mode, the controller is configured to form the dots using the first region of the nozzle column, and wherein at a time of the second print mode, the controller is configured to form the dots using the first region and the second region of the nozzle column wherein the irradiation section has a plurality of LEDs arranged in the predetermined direction as a light source of the light, and wherein the controller is configured to change an input current into the plurality of LEDs according to a position of each LED in the predetermined direction.