Patent ID: 6682168
Filing Date: 2004-01-27
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
A printing apparatus which prints onto a predetermined printing region of a printing medium by using a printhead having a plurality of nozzles that are aligned at a predetermined nozzle pitch and discharge ink droplets, and scanning the printhead a plurality of times, with respect to the predetermined printing region, in a direction cross to an alignment direction of the nozzles and discharging ink droplets from different nozzles of the printhead onto the predetermined printing region in the plurality of scanning operations, comprising:convey means for conveying the printing medium in a convey direction by a predetermined convey amount of every scanning; and control means for controlling the convey amount of every scanning to a convey amount corresponding to either one of even and odd multiples of the nozzle pitch, and setting the convey amount corresponding to each of the even and odd multiples of the nozzle pitch at least once in the plurality of scanning operations for printing onto the predetermined printing region.