Patent ID: 7775654

Claim:
A printing apparatus that forms dots from a print start position and along a scanning direction to print on a medium to be printed, said apparatus comprising: a carriage that is movable in the scanning direction; a sensor that is provided on the carriage; a print head that is provided on the carriage; and a control unit, the control unit being adapted to: obtain information about a width of the medium to be printed that is associated with a type of medium to be printed selected by a user; obtain information about a width of a print region, said information being contained in a received print signal; determine a width of a blank space that is to be formed on the medium to be printed based on the information about the width of the medium to be printed and the information about the width of the print region; and determine a print start position and a print end position for a pass based on the width of the blank space and a detection result from the sensor indicating detection of an edge of the medium to be printed.