Patent ID: 7267425

Claim:
A print control device for controlling a printing apparatus which comprises a transporter operable to transport a printing medium in a first direction, and a printing head provided with a plurality of printing elements arrayed in the first direction and divided into a first group situating on one side of a boundary line extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and a second group situating on the other side of the boundary line, the print control device comprising: a data assignment controller, operable to assign print data, for printing on the printing medium to at least one of the printing elements included in each of the first group and the second group; and a transportation controller, operable to drive the transporter to control a transportation amount of the printing medium in accordance with a first number that is the number of printing elements to which the print data is assigned, wherein: in a case where the first number is less than a second number that is the total number of the printing elements in each of the first group and the second group, the data assignment controller first assigns the print data to one of the printing elements which is closest to the boundary line for each of the first group and the second group, and then assigns the print data to one of the printing elements farther from the boundary line.