Patent ID: 7588306

Claim:
An ink jet printing method of performing printing to a print medium by scanning a printing head having nozzles to the print medium and transporting the print medium, said method comprising the steps of: performing printing to a first area including an edge of the print medium in a transporting direction; performing printing to a second area of the print medium which is farther from the edge than the first area; and performing printing to a third area of the print medium which is farther from the edge than the second area, wherein a number of nozzles that can be used for performing printing to the second area during a single scan of the print head is greater than a number of nozzles that can be used for performing printing to the first area during a single scan of the print head and less than a number of nozzles that can be used for performing printing to the third area during a single scan of the print head, and wherein a number of scans of the print head required to complete printing of each line of the first area, a number of scans of the print head required to complete printing of each line of the second area and a number of scans of the print head required to complete printing of each line of the third area are the same.