Patent ID: 8820872

Claim:
A printing apparatus comprising: a discharging head that discharges liquid to a recording medium; a controller that is capable of performing a printing by a first printing mode that discharges a first liquid to the recording medium from the discharging head, transports the recording medium to an upstream side in a transportation direction, and discharges other liquid to the recording medium from the discharging head, or a second printing mode that discharges the first liquid from a upstream nozzle of the discharging head, and discharges other liquid from a downstream nozzle that is positioned further downstream than the upstream nozzle in the transportation direction to the area of the recording medium onto which the first liquid has been discharged; and wherein, the controller selects the first printing mode or the second printing mode, based on a printing position error data that is generated when a printing is performed by the first printing mode, and a permissible printing position error that is set based on input information.