Patent ID: 8480195

Claim:
A printing device which forms a background by a first ink and forms images on the background by a second ink, the printing device comprising: a head having a first nozzle line capable of ejecting the first ink and a second nozzle line capable of ejecting the second ink, and to eject the first and second inks while relatively moving in a main scanning direction intersecting the first nozzle line and the second nozzle line, with respect to a medium; a transport section relatively transporting the medium in a sub-scanning direction along the first nozzle line and the second nozzle line with respect to the head; and a controller controlling the head and the transport section such that an ejecting operation where the first ink and the second ink are ejected in the relative movement in the main scanning direction and the relative transportation in the sub-scanning direction are repeatedly performed, wherein the controller controls the head to set a first nozzle line used area where the first ink is ejected from a nozzle in the first nozzle line and the second ink is not ejected from a nozzle in the second nozzle line and a second nozzle line used area where the second ink is ejected from a nozzle in the second nozzle line and the first ink is not ejected from a nozzle in the first nozzle line are set, and wherein the controller controls the head to set an area between the first nozzle line used area and the second nozzle line used area to a nozzle unused area which corresponds to unused nozzles of the first nozzle line and the second nozzle line.