Patent ID: 6962404

Claim:
A printing method comprising: ejecting ink from ink ejecting sections provided in/on a movable print head to form dots; performing at least either printing with a first arrangement using inks arranged according to said first arrangement or printing with a second arrangement using inks arranged according to said second arrangement by changing the arrangement of inks supplied to each of said ink ejecting sections; and printing, with one forward and return movement of said print head, a correction pattern for determining a correction amount to be used for said printing with the first arrangement for correcting a misalignment between a position at which dots are formed during a forward pass of said print head and a position at which dots are formed during a return pass of said print head that occurs during said printing with the first arrangement and a correction amount to be used for said printing with the second arrangement for correcting a misalignment between a position at which dots are formed during a forward pass of said print head and a position at which dots are formed during a return pass of said print head that occurs during said printing with the second arrangement.