Patent ID: 7661787

Claim:
A printing method comprising: determining a first color group including at least one color of a plurality of colors, said plurality of colors being colors of ink is to be ejected from a plurality of nozzles of a printing apparatus; determining a second color group including at least one color of said plurality of colors, said second color group being different from said first color group; carrying out darkness correction in order to inhibit darkness non-uniformity between dot row regions on a medium with respect to said first color group, for each of said dot row regions, without carrying out said darkness correction with respect to said second color group; ejecting ink toward each of said dot row regions from each of said plurality of nozzles for said first color group so that said dot row regions take on a corrected darkness; and ejecting ink toward each of said dot row regions from each of said plurality of nozzles for said second color group so that said dot row regions take on a darkness that has not been corrected.