Liquid ejecting apparatus and method of forming nozzle test pattern

Abstract

A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a head that includes a plurality of nozzles disposed for each color of liquids and ejects liquids from the plurality of nozzles onto a medium and a control unit that forms a nozzle test pattern for testing defective liquid-ejection of a test target nozzle with one from the plurality of nozzles set as the test target nozzle. The control unit performs either a first process in which the nozzle test pattern is formed by having liquids ejected from the test target nozzle and a different nozzle, which is different from the test target nozzle, from the plurality of nozzles land on the medium in an overlapping manner or a second process in which the nozzle test pattern is formed by having only the liquid ejected from the test target nozzle land on the medium in accordance with the type of the medium.

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