Patent ID: 7537302

Claim:
A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising: a movable ejection head that ejects a liquid; a feed mechanism that feeds a medium; and a detecting section that detects a position of an edge of said medium; wherein said liquid ejecting apparatus repeats an operation of detecting the position of said edge with said detecting section an operation of feeding said medium with said feed mechanism, and an operation of ejecting the liquid onto said medium from said ejection head that is moving; wherein, in accordance with the position of said edge that has been detected, said liquid ejecting apparatus changes at least either one of a start position and an end position for ejecting the liquid from said ejection head that is moving; and wherein, in case that the position of said edge was not detected, said liquid ejecting apparatus sets said start position or said end position to a position that has been established in advance independent of the position of said edge that was detected in the past.