Patent ID: 7090332

Claim:
An ink jet printing apparatus that prints on a print medium by causing a printing section including color nozzle rows corresponding to a plurality of four or more colors to carry out a main scan in a main scanning direction, while causing said printing section to eject ink onto the print medium, wherein a nozzle row for a first ink color and a nozzle row for a second ink color are arranged at opposite ends of said printing section in the main scanning direction, a hue difference between the first and second ink colors being the greatest among the plurality of colors, wherein said nozzle rows of said printing section include a nozzle row for cyan ink, a nozzle row for black ink, a nozzle row for yellow ink, and a nozzle row for magenta ink, and said nozzle row for the first ink color is the nozzle row for cyan ink, and said nozzle row for the second ink color is the nozzle row for magenta ink, and wherein in the main scanning direction, the color nozzle rows of said printing section are arranged in the order of the nozzle row for cyan ink, the nozzle row for black ink, the nozzle row for yellow ink, and the nozzle row for magenta ink.