Patent ID: 7344225
Filing Date: 2008-03-18
Classification: B41J,G06K

Abstract:
1. A printing method comprising: creating print data by rearranging an order in which a plurality of pieces of pixel data which make up image data are arranged; and based on the print data, alternately repeating to form, on the medium, a plurality of the rows of dots arranged in the carrying direction, wherein, in a case where normal printing for forming the rows of dots in a central portion of the medium is to be performed after upper-end printing for forming the rows of dots in an upper-end portion of the medium, positions, on the medium in the carrying direction, of the rows of dots to be formed by the nozzles during a certain dot-forming process performing the upper-end printing are stored in a table, a comparing process is performed in which the pixel data corresponding to the positions in the table after the comparing process are extracted from the image data, to create the print data for performing the certain dot-forming process.