Patent ID: 7971951

Claim:
A printing method of printing by scanning an area on a print medium twice with a printhead having a first printing element array and a second printing element array, and driving printing elements of each of the first printing element array and the second printing element array by time division for each block, the method comprising: printing in a first scanning of the area by driving printing elements of the first printing element array by time division, and driving by time division printing elements of the second printing element array that are at positions different from positions of said printing elements of the first printing element array; and printing in a second scanning of the area by driving by time division other printing elements of the first printing element array that are at positions different from the positions of said printing elements of the first printing element array, and driving by time division other printing elements of the second printing element array that are at the same positions as the positions of said printing elements of the first printing element array.