Liquid Ejecting Apparatus

A liquid ejecting apparatus comprising:

• a liquid ejecting head including a plurality of head chips each including a nozzle group including a plurality of nozzles that eject liquid in an ejection direction;
• a transport mechanism that transports a medium in a first direction at a position facing an ejection surface of the liquid ejecting head;
• and
• an air blowing mechanism, wherein the plurality of nozzles include a plurality of used nozzles used for a printing operation of ejecting the liquid toward the medium,
• when a region surrounded by a smallest convex polygon surrounding the plurality of used nozzles in each of a plurality of the nozzle groups is defined as a nozzle region, a plurality of the nozzle regions corresponding to the plurality of nozzle groups are each elongated in a fourth direction intersecting both the first direction and a second direction orthogonal to both the first direction and the ejection direction, and
• the air blowing mechanism generates an airflow along the ejection surface in a third direction intersecting all of the first direction, the second direction, and the fourth direction.