Patent ID: 8382245

Claim:
A liquid ejecting head comprising: a first flow channel element which includes a first nozzle plate formed with a first nozzle row defined by a plurality of nozzles arranged in a first direction with a pitch; a second flow channel element which includes a second nozzle plate formed with a second nozzle row defined by a plurality of nozzles arranged in the first direction with the pitch; a head casing to which the first flow channel element and the second flow channel element are fixed; and a filter element having a plurality of filters and common to the first flow channel element and the second flow channel element, wherein the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row are displaced in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and the second nozzle row has a nozzle whose distance in the first direction to one of the nozzles in the first nozzle row is equal to the pitch.