Patent ID: 6921148

Claim:
A color filter which is formed upon a substrate plate so as to present several colors, wherein: one or more liquid drop discharge heads in which are provided a plurality of nozzles which discharge a liquid mass including filter material of a predetermined color form said color filter by discharging said liquid mass from at least two or more different ones of said nozzles among said nozzles which are provided to said one or more liquid drop discharge heads which are positioned along a relative shifting direction against the same predetermined position upon said substrate plate, while relatively shifting a surface which includes said nozzles with respect to said substrate plate in a state in which it opposes said substrate plate; among said plurality of nozzles which are arranged in rows in said liquid drop discharge heads, the nozzles in predetermined regions at end poitions of the rows are set as non discharge nozzles; and said plurality of liquid drop discharge heads are arranged in a plurality of parallel rows, with the liquid drop discharge heads which are arranged in one of the rows, and the liquid drop discharge beads which are arranged in another of these rows, being arranged in a positional relationship in which they are at least partially mutually superimposed in said relative shifting direction, and said liquid mass is discharged against said object against which liquid drops are to be discharged from nozzles in the liquid drop discharge heads in a state in which the arrangement of said nozzles in the direction perpendicular to said relative shifting direction is substantially continuous between said plurality of liquid drop discharge heads.