Patent ID: 8888205

Claim:
A printing device for printing an image, comprising: an affixing part configured to affix ink to a printing medium; and a controller programmed to control ink volumes of each of a colored ink, a light-shielding ink having light-shielding properties, and a special glossy ink having special gloss that are respectively affixed to the printing medium from the affixing part; the controller including a field discriminating part programmed to discriminate an overlap field in image data based on which the image is formed, the overlap field being a field in which a light-shielding ink field and a special glossy ink field overlap with respect to each other, the light-shielding ink being affixed to the light-shielding ink field, the special glossy ink being affixed to the special glossy ink field, and an ink volume controller programmed to control reducing, in the overlap field, the ink volume of the light-shielding ink to a first volume of the light-shielding ink that is smaller than a second ink volume of the light-shielding ink, the second ink volume being predetermined in accordance with the image data.