Patent ID: 7946678

Claim:
A printing apparatus for performing printing with use of a printing head in which printing elements are arranged in a predetermined direction to form dots on a printing medium, the printing apparatus comprising: a print controller that completes a printing for a unit region on the printing medium by causing a printing movement for printing by moving the printing head relative to the printing medium in a first direction different from the predetermined direction and a conveying operation for conveying the printing medium in a second direction intersecting the first direction by an amount smaller than a width at which the printing elements are arranged, the printing for the unit region being executed by N (N is an integer equal to or greater than 3 or more) times of the printing movement; and a divider that divides inputted image data to be printed on the unit region into image data corresponding to m rasters that continue in the second direction (where m is an integer equal to or greater than 2), wherein when N is not an integral multiple of m, the divider divides the inputted image data so that the dots are formed for the m rasters at a substantially equal rate.