Method of generating ejection pattern data, and head motion pattern data; apparatus for generating ejection pattern data; apparatus for ejecting functional liquid droplet; drawing system; method of manufacturing organic el device, electron emitting device, pdp device, electrophoresis display device, color filter, and organic el; and method of forming spacer, metal wiring, lens, resist, and light diffuser

Abstract

A method of generating ejection pattern data for a plurality of nozzles for use in selectively ejecting functional liquid droplets from the nozzles is to draw on ore more one chip-forming area on a workpiece. The method includes a pixel-setting step of setting pixel information concerning an array of pixels in the chip-forming areas, a chip-setting step of setting chip information concerning an array of the chip-forming areas on the workpiece, a nozzle-setting step of setting nozzle information concerning an array of the nozzles, and a data-generating step of generating the ejection pattern data for the nozzles from the pixel information, the chip information, and the nozzle information, based on a positional relationship between the workpiece and the functional liquid droplet ejection head. The ejection pattern data are easily and quickly generated for the nozzles arranged in an array in the plurality of functional liquid droplet ejection heads.