Patent ID: 7198344

Claim:
A liquid ejecting device having at least one head including a plurality of liquid ejecting portions each having a nozzle, said liquid ejecting device comprising: an ejection deflector for ejecting a droplet with deflection for each nozzle of said plurality of liquid ejecting portions in a plurality of directions in which the nozzles of said plurality of liquid ejecting portions are arranged; and an ejection controller for controlling the droplets that are delivered in a single column to form a pixel column, or the droplets are delivered in a single pixel region to form a pixel by ejecting droplets in different directions from at least two different liquid ejecting portions among said plurality of liquid ejecting portions while using said ejection deflector, such that a plurality of said droplets are selectively transmitted toward a desired location and a number of droplets selectively positioned at the desired location is altered to express a graduation in image information.