Patent ID: 7817238

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device comprising: preparing a first substrate including a pixel area and a non-pixel area, wherein preparing the first substrate includes: forming gate and data lines on the first substrate, the gate and data lines crossing each other to define a unit pixel region; forming a thin film transistor at a crossing area of the gate and data lines, the thin film transistor including a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode; and forming a pixel electrode connected with the drain electrode of the thin film transistor; forming a well corresponding to the thin film transistor of the non-pixel area wherein forming the well includes: coating an alignment layer on the first substrate, and excluding the alignment layer from the thin film transistor of the non-pixel area; and forming a ball spacer in the well to prevent the balls spacer from moving to the pixel area using an ink-jet apparatus, wherein forming the ball spacer in the well using the ink-jet apparatus includes: supplying a solution containing the ball spacer as solid state to the ink-jet apparatus; dispensing the solution onto a predetermined portion of the first substrate by moving the ink-jet apparatus above the first substrate; and drying the solution containing the ball spacer to remove a solvent of the solution from the first substrate.