Patent ID: 7787147

Claim:
A printing method comprising: (A) determining a first correction value corresponding to a first print mode that is applied to a front end area, with respect to a transport direction, of a medium, the first print mode being for forming dot rows extending in a movement direction on a plurality of row regions lined up in the transport direction, by repeating a movement ejection operation of ejecting ink onto the medium while moving nozzles in the movement direction, which is perpendicular to the transport direction, and a transport operation of transporting the medium in the transport direction, the first correction value being for correcting an ejection amount of the ink in each row region individually; (B) determining a second correction value corresponding to a second print mode that is applied to a middle area, with respect to the transport direction, of the medium, the second print mode being for forming dot rows extending in the movement direction on a plurality of row regions lined up in the transport direction, by repeating the movement ejection operation and the transport operation, the second correction value being for correcting an ejection amount of the ink in each row region individually; (C) correcting the ejection amount of the ink in each row region individually, using a combined correction value that is obtained by combining the first correction value and the second correction value for a coexistent segment in which certain row regions and another row regions are coexistent, the certain row regions are row regions in which the dot rows are formed by the first print mode and the other row regions are row regions in which the dot rows are formed by the second print mode.