Liquid ejecting head and liquid ejecting apparatus

A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising a liquid ejecting head having a plurality of arrays of liquid ejecting portions each having a nozzle for ejecting a droplet, the liquid ejecting apparatus being adapted to cause a liquid ejected from the nozzle of each of the liquid ejecting portions to be impacted on a target liquid-impacting object that is arranged at a predetermined distance, wherein:

• the nozzle is arranged along each of an imaginary straight line R1 and an imaginary straight line R2 that are arranged in parallel at a distance δ from each other, and a distance, with respect to the direction of the imaginary straight lines R1 and R2, between two adjacent ones of the nozzles respectively arranged on the imaginary straight line R1 and the imaginary straight line R2 is set to a fixed value P;
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• the liquid ejecting portions arrayed along at least one of the imaginary straight lines R1 and R2 are formed so that a liquid is ejected from each of the liquid ejecting portions while being deflected to the other imaginary straight line side;
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• a distance σ between a line S1, which connects centers of a row of dots formed by the liquid ejecting portions arrayed along the imaginary straight line R1, and a line S2, which connects centers of a row of dots formed by the liquid ejecting portions arrayed along the imaginary straight line R2, with respect to a direction orthogonal to the rows of dots is set to be smaller than the distance δ.