Liquid ejecting apparatus

A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising:

• a head including a nozzle from which liquid is ejected toward a medium, a pressure chamber communicating with the nozzle, and a drive element that is configured to change pressure applied to the liquid in the pressure chamber;
• and
• a drive signal generator that is configured to generate a drive signal for driving the drive element, wherein
• the drive signal includes
• a plurality of ejection pulses that are temporally aligned corresponding to a plurality of droplets that are to be combined after being ejected from the nozzle and before landing on the medium, and cause the plurality of droplets to be sequentially ejected, and
• an interpulse component that is between two temporally continuous ejection pulses among the plurality of ejection pulses and is maintained at a reference potential,
• the plurality of ejection pulses include
• filling components that cause the pressure in the pressure chamber to be negative, and
• ejection components that cause the pressure in the pressure chamber to be positive in such a way that droplets are ejected from the nozzle,
• when an earliest ejection pulse among the plurality of ejection pulses is a first ejection pulse, a plurality of ejection pulses that succeed the first ejection pulse among the plurality of ejection pulses are a plurality of second ejection pulses, and a latest ejection pulse among the plurality of ejection pulses is a third ejection pulse,
• the ejection component of the first ejection pulse changes from a first potential to the reference potential and is temporally continuous with an interpulse component,
• the ejection components of the plurality of second ejection pulses and the ejection component of the third ejection pulse change from the first potential to a second potential,
• the plurality of second ejection pulses include first vibration suppression components that succeed the ejection components of the second ejection pulses and dampen residual vibration in the pressure chamber by changing from the second potential to the reference potential,
• the third ejection pulse includes a second vibration suppression component that reduces the change in the pressure in the pressure chamber by changing from the second potential to a third potential, and
• the reference potential is a potential between the first potential and the second potential and between the second potential and the third potential.