Patent ID: 7270846

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a color filter having a plurality of colored pixels on a substrate by discharging an ink having a color other than black from an ink-jet head having a plurality of ink discharging nozzles while performing relative movement of said ink-jet head and the substrate, comprising the steps of: dividing the plurality of ink discharging nozzles for discharging the ink having a same color other than black into a plurality of nozzle groups, with each nozzle group comprising every N nozzles, N being a positive integer; and in coloring one substrate by performing the relative movement a plurality of times, performing an ink discharging operation such that inks are discharged by using only one nozzle group of the plurality of nozzle groups in the plural relative movements, and that ink discharging nozzles which are used in a subsequent relative movement always comprise all of, or part of, ink discharging nozzles which have been used in a previous relative movement.