Patent ID: 7654657

Claim:
A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising: a liquid ejecting head; a carriage carrying the liquid ejecting head, the carriage being moved back and forth in a main scanning direction; a plurality of subtanks carried on the carriage, each subtank receiving a highly concentrated color ink, the subtanks corresponding to respective ink colors; a single main tank disposed on a body of the apparatus, the main tank containing a diluent containing no coloring component and/or a colorless ink; and a single feed pipe through which the diluent and/or the colorless ink is supplied from the single main tank to the carriage carrying the subtanks, such that the diluent and/or colorless ink from the single main tank is mixed at the carriage with the highly concentrated color ink in each of the plurality of subtanks, the liquid ejecting head being supplied with the respective color inks and ejecting the inks.