Patent ID: 7481883

Claim:
A droplet discharge apparatus that forms a pattern in a desired shape on a base material being processed by discharging liquids having pattern-forming substances, comprising: a drawing section, inside which the base material moves entirely straight in one direction, the drawing section having a plurality of droplet discharge heads that are arranged in a direction intersecting with the movement direction of the base material; a supply section for supplying the pre-drawing base material toward the drawing section; a removal section for extracting the post-drawing base material from the drawing section; a checking section for checking the drawing state of the base material after drawing; and a correcting head for correcting a defect on the base material, the correcting head being: provided adjacent to the drawing section; movable in the direction intersecting with the movement direction of the base material at a right angle; and having a droplet discharge head, wherein the drawing section, the supply section, and the removal section are arranged along an entirely straight one-direction conveyance of the base material, and the base material moves from the supply section side to the removal section side with respect to the plurality of droplet discharge heads in the entirely straight one-direction conveyance of the base material, being also the direction that intersects the arrangement direction of the plurality of droplet discharge heads, while discharging the liquids by the droplet discharge heads.