Patent ID: 8786881

Claim:
A printing apparatus comprising: a printing section configured to print an image based on expanded data; and a control device configured to: measure a deviation amount of at least one of a position and a density of the image printed by the printing section when a correction execution condition is satisfied; and expand print data based on the measured deviation amount so as to produce the expanded data, wherein when the correction execution condition is satisfied during the expanding of current print data which corresponds to a current page being expanded, the control device is configured to suspend the expanding of the current page being expanded so that an unexpanded portion of the current page remains, measure the deviation amount, and restart expanding the unexpanded portion of the current page based on the measurement performed after the expanding is suspended, and wherein the expanded data is generated by analyzing the print data, generating intermediate data based on the print data, and expanding the intermediate data while adjusting the intermediate data based on the measured deviation amount.