Patent ID: 7401893
Filing Date: 2008-07-22
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A printing method for printing a print image on a medium, comprising the following steps of: supporting said medium with a protruding section provided in a predetermined position in a predetermined direction; moving a plurality of nozzles whose positions are different from one another in a direction that intersects said predetermined direction, wherein said plurality of nozzles comprises nozzles that are in opposition to said protruding section and nozzles that are not in opposition to said protruding section while they are moved in said predetermined direction; and printing the print image on said medium by ejecting ink from the plurality of moving nozzles toward said medium supported by said protruding section, wherein when an edge of said medium in said predetermined direction is on said protruding section, said ink is not ejected from the nozzles that are in opposition to said protruding section and said ink is ejected from the nozzles that are not in opposition to said protruding section toward the edge of said medium in said predetermined direction, wherein the nozzles that are in opposition to said protruding section are sandwiched between two groups of nozzles that are not in opposition to said protruding section.