Patent ID: 7931414

Claim:
A printing apparatus, comprising: a carriage holding a printing head, configured to reciprocate along a predetermined direction with respect to a printing medium; and a controller configured to control movement of the carriage for printing with a specific drive condition selected from among a plurality of drive conditions, each of the drive conditions having a particular moving distance of reciprocation while the carriage reciprocates along the predetermined direction, vibration of an installation base on which the printing apparatus is installed caused by the reciprocation of the carriage being affected by the particular moving distance, wherein the controller is configured to perform control so as to successively reciprocate the carriage with each of the plurality of drive conditions, hold one or more of the drive conditions in which the vibration of the installation base is not greater than a predetermined magnitude, and set the specific drive condition in which the particular moving distance is equal to or greater than a required width for printing on the printing medium, the specific drive condition being selected from the held drive conditions.