Patent ID: 8814301

Claim:
A printing apparatus, comprising: (A) a transporting unit for transporting a medium in a transporting direction; (B) an upstream background color nozzle row in which background color nozzles for ejecting background ink to the medium are arranged; (C) an upstream color nozzle row in which color nozzles for ejecting color ink to the medium are arranged; (D) a downstream background color nozzle row located downstream of the upstream background color nozzle row in the transporting direction; (E) a downstream color nozzle row in which the color nozzles located downstream of the upstream color nozzle row in the transporting direction; (F) a moving unit for moving the upstream background color nozzle row, the upstream color nozzle row, the downstream background color nozzle row and the downstream color nozzle row in an intersecting direction that crosses the transporting direction; (G) a controller for printing of an image having a single region and an overlapping region by performing a single region printing for the single region and an overlapping region printing for the overlapping region during printing when one image is being printed, wherein, the single region printing is printing that forms a background image with at least one of the upstream background color nozzle row and the downstream background color nozzle row, or forms a color image with at least one of the upstream color nozzle row and the downstream color nozzle row, wherein, the overlapping region printing is printing that forms a background image with the upstream background color nozzle row and forms a color image with the downstream color nozzle row, or forms a color image with the upstream color nozzle row and forms a background image with the downstream background color nozzle row.