Patent ID: 8807677
Filing Date: 2014-08-19
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus comprising: a first part of nozzles that ejects at least one of brilliant ink and white ink to a medium; a second part of the nozzles that ejects color ink to the medium; and a control unit that controls printing to form a first image based on image data by the first part of the nozzles and to form a second image based on the image data on the first image by the second part of the nozzles, and wherein when an overlapped edge portion in which a part of an edge of the first image and a part of an edge of the second image are overlapped exists in the image data, the control unit deforms before forming the image on the medium, at least one of the first image and the second image so that a portion of the edge of the second image including the overlapped edge portion is positioned outside a portion of the edge of the first image including the overlapped edge portion.