Patent ID: 7284810

Claim:
A printing apparatus for printing on a medium to be printed, comprising an ink ejection section for ejecting ink, a moving mechanism for moving the ink ejection section; and a control unit for controlling the ink ejection section and the moving mechanism, wherein: a target velocity is set so that a maximum value of the target velocity from the time when the ink ejection section starts moving to the time when the ink ejection section stops moving is slower than a reference velocity; the control unit causes the moving mechanism to move the ink ejection section according to the target velocity; the control unit causes the ink ejection section to eject the ink at a timing that is delayed from a reference timing that is a timing of ejecting ink when the ink ejection section is moving at the reference velocity, based on a moving velocity of the ink ejection section and the reference velocity; and said reference velocity is 4 to 6% faster than the maximum value of said target velocity.