Patent ID: 7367654

Claim:
A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising: a liquid ejecting head having a nozzle plate provided with an ejecting hole, the liquid ejecting head being configured to discharge liquid drops through the ejecting hole by changing pressure applied to a liquid contained in a pressure chamber connected to the ejecting hole; a conductive member disposed in a space behind an object being processed opposite to the liquid ejecting head; potential difference generator configured to generate a potential difference between the nozzle plate and the conductive member; and switching controller configured to control an operation of turning on and off the potential difference generator, wherein the switching controller is configured to decide whether a process to which the object is subjected is a borderless recording process that applies liquid drops on an edge part of the object or a bordered recording process that does not drop any liquid drops on the edge part of the object so that the potential difference generator is turned off when the bordered recording process is executed.