A maintenance pulse is a pulsed waveform that includes an expansion element that causes a pressure chamber to expand, a contraction element that causes the pressure chamber that is expanded by the expansion element to contract, and a reexpansion element that causes the pressure chamber that is contracted by the contraction element to expand again, and satisfies the following condition (1) when a time from the beginning of the contraction element to the beginning of the reexpansion element is given the term T1, and a specific vibration period that is caused in the liquid inside the pressure chamber is given the term Tc. 1.2×Tc≦T1