Patent ID: 8016499

Claim:
A printing method comprising: scanning a rectangular region to obtain a scanned image of the rectangular region, the rectangular region including: a first medium shaped in a disk shape and disposed on a document table, a shadow portion of an edge portion of the first medium, a middle hole portion of the first medium, and a part of the document table placed outside the first medium; designating a part of the scanned image as a non-printing region in accordance with a kind of a second medium, the non-printing region being a region of the scanned image that is not to be printed on the second medium; and printing the scanned image without the non-printing region of the scanned image on the second medium, wherein the non-printing region includes a region corresponding to at least one of the shadow portion of the edge portion of the first medium, the middle hole portion of the first medium, and the part of the document table placed outside the first medium.