Patent ID: 8777395

Claim:
A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising: a carriage that has a head ejecting liquid cured by receiving the irradiation of light and moves in a movement direction intersecting a transportation direction of a medium; a first irradiation section that is disposed at the carriage, irradiates the light and is arranged at an upstream side or a downstream side from the head in the movement direction; a second irradiation section that irradiates the light and is arranged at the downstream side from the first irradiation section in the transportation direction; and a controller that forms the image on the medium through performing an ejection operation ejecting the liquid from the head while moving the carriage in the movement direction and a transportation operation that transports the medium in the transportation direction, and performs control of an irradiation intensity of the light of the first irradiation section at the time of the ejection operation to regulate the surface condition of the image and to change the irradiation intensity of the light of the second irradiation section according to the irradiation intensity of the light of the first irradiation section, wherein the controller changes the irradiation intensity of the light of the first irradiation section and the second irradiation section according to types of media, wherein when the controller performs a first print mode that forms dots at a predetermined region on the medium through performing the ejection operation n times (n is a natural number), or a second print mode that forms dots at the predetermined region through performing the ejection operation m times (m is a natural number larger than n) and then the image of the predetermined surface condition is printed, the irradiation intensity of the light of each of the irradiation sections in the second print mode is decreased less than the irradiation intensity of the light of each of the irradiation sections in the first print mode.