Patent ID: 8511779

Claim:
An ink jet printing apparatus for printing an image on a printing medium by performing print scans, each of which makes a print while causing a printing head, which includes an array of printing elements for ejecting ink, to scan on a printing medium in a scanning direction, and by conveying the printing medium between the print scans in a conveying direction intersecting with the scanning direction, the apparatus comprising: a selection unit configured to select one print mode from a plurality of print modes including a first mode which makes a print with a using range restricted to a part of the array of the printing elements over an entire printing region on the printing medium and a second mode which makes a print with an entire range of the array of the printing elements without restricting the using range on at least part of the printing region on the printing medium, in a case where a monochrome image is printed; and a print controller configured to execute the print mode selected by the selection unit to print an image on the printing medium.