Patent ID: 8272705

Claim:
A liquid ejection apparatus comprising: a feeding mechanism configured to feed a recording medium in a feeding direction; a first ejection head having a first liquid-ejection opening through which is ejected first liquid that is for forming an image on the recording medium; a second ejection head having a second liquid-ejection opening through which is ejected second liquid that is liquid to be ejected on the recording medium to reduce a degree of absorption of the first liquid into the recording medium; an image-data storage section configured to store image data of the image to be recorded on the recording medium; an image-recording controlling section configured to control the first ejection head on the basis of the image data stored in the image-data storage section such that an image dot is to be formed on the recording medium by the first liquid ejected from the first liquid-ejection opening of the first ejection head and landed on the recording medium; a flushing-operation-data producing section configured to produce flushing-operation data for a flushing operation of the first liquid; a flushing-operation controlling section configured to control the first ejection head on the basis of the flushing operation data produced by the flushing-operation-data producing section such that the flushing dot is to be formed on the recording medium by the first liquid ejected from the first liquid-ejection opening of the first ejection head and landed on the recording medium; a second-liquid-ejection-data producing section configured to produce data about the ejection of the second liquid such that (i) the second liquid is to be landed on at least one dot area on which the first liquid is to be landed on the basis of the control of the image-recording controlling section among a plurality of dot areas into which the recording medium is partitioned and each of which has a first length corresponding to a resolution in a direction perpendicular to the feeding direction and a second length corresponding to a resolution in a direction parallel to the feeding direction and (ii) an amount of the second liquid to be landed on at least one dot area on which the first liquid is to be landed on the basis of the control of the flushing-operation controlling section is made smaller, by referring the flushing-operation data produced by the flushing-operation-data producing section, than an amount of the second liquid to be landed on a dot area on which the first liquid is not to be landed on the basis of the control of the flushing-operation controlling section; and a second-liquid controlling section configured to control the second ejection head on the basis of the data produced by the second-liquid-ejection-data producing section.