Patent ID: 8201936

Claim:
A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising: a liquid ejecting head having a nozzle opening for ejecting a liquid; a heating unit disposed opposite a liquid ejecting surface of the liquid ejecting head; a transport unit that transports a liquid-ejection-target medium between the liquid ejecting head and the heating unit; a blower unit that blows air onto a liquid-ejection-target surface of the medium; and a blowing control unit, wherein the blower unit is able to vary an amount of air blown in a plurality of regions disposed along a certain direction, the plurality of regions including a region of the liquid-ejection-target medium, the blowing control unit controls an amount of the air blown from the blower unit in the plurality of the regions along the certain direction on the basis of a width of the medium in the certain direction, and the blowing control unit controls the blower unit so as to increase an amount of air blown in a region in which the liquid-election-target medium does not exist, relative to an amount of air blown in a region in which the liquid-election-target medium exists.