Patent ID: 8662637

Claim:
A fluid ejecting apparatus comprising: (1) a first nozzle row in which first nozzles that eject first fluid are arranged in a row in a given direction; (2) a second nozzle row in which second nozzles that eject second fluid are arranged in a row in the given direction; (3) a movement mechanism which moves the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row with respect to a medium in a moving direction intersecting the given direction; (4) a transport mechanism which transports the medium with respect to the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row in the given direction; and (5) a control section which repeats an image formation operation for ejecting fluid from the first nozzles and the second nozzles while moving the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row in the moving direction by the movement mechanism and a transport operation for transporting the medium with respect to the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row in the given direction by the transport mechanism, wherein in a case where after the formation of a first image layer by the first fluid and the second fluid in a certain image formation operation, a second image layer is formed on the first image layer by the second fluid in another image formation operation, at the time of normal image formation, the first nozzles and the second nozzles for forming the first image layer are set to be nozzles which are located further on the upstream side in the given direction than the second nozzles for forming the second image layer, and at the time of image formation of an upper end portion of the medium, the first nozzles and the second nozzles for forming the first image layer are set to be nozzles which are located further on the downstream side in the given direction than the first nozzles and the second nozzles for forming the first image layer at the time of the normal image formation, wherein at least part of a first nozzle group which forms the first image layer in the first nozzle row overlaps in the moving direction at least part of a second nozzle group which forms the first image layer in the second nozzle row.