Patent ID: 7988253

Claim:
An ink jet printing apparatus allowing a print head that ejects an ink droplet based on print data, to scan the same area of a print medium a plurality of times to print an image on the print medium, the apparatus comprising: a controller that controls a wait time set between a preceding scan and a succeeding scan in a plurality of scans performed by the print head on a predetermined area, wherein the controller controls the wait time; and a counter that counts a number of ink droplets ejected to the predetermined area based on print data on the predetermined area, wherein the controller controls the wait time based on a result of counting by the counter, wherein the counter determines a number of ink droplets ejected to each of a plurality of determination areas into which the predetermined area is divided, and wherein the controller controls the wait time according to a number of times that the number of ink droplets ejected to the determination area exceeds a threshold value.