Patent ID: 7671962

Claim:
In a spacer forming method in which drops of ink with a granular spacer dispersed in solvent is jetted by an inkjetting method utilizing nozzles of an inkjet head onto plural spacer forming positions on one of opposite substrates for maintaining a constant gap to be filled with liquid crystal between said opposite substrates, the spacer forming method including the steps of jetting plural drops onto each of said spacer forming positions, characterized in that the spacer forming method includes: a first step of testing whether there are abnormal nozzles in the ink jet head before said ink drops are jetted onto spacer forming positions; a second step of jetting said ink drops from normal nozzles only onto the corresponding spacer forming positions; and a third step of shifting the corresponding relative lateral position of said nozzles and said spacer forming positions whereby the normal nozzles register with the spacer forming positions which previously registered with the abnormal nozzles.