Patent ID: 7355736

Claim:
A scanning type printing apparatus which prints at least one of an image and a text on a recording medium in accordance with at least one of image data and text data while moving on the recording medium, said scanning type printing apparatus comprising: moving means for moving the scanning type printing apparatus on the recording medium; an image processing unit that, prior to printing, rotates said at least one of the image and the text to be printed on the recording medium based on said at least one of the image data and the text data and/or reverses front and back thereof; an ejection head that includes at least one nozzle that ejects ink and at least one ink ejection means, each of which is arranged so as to correspond to each of said at least one nozzle and is modulation-driven in accordance with said at least one of said image data and said text data processed by the image processing unit; and a storage unit in which said at least one of the image data and the text data supplied from one of the external device and a data storing medium is stored, wherein image data of a plurality of images and a plurality of pieces of text data are stored in the storage unit; and said image processing unit synthesizes at least one of image data of a first image and a first piece of text data read out from said storage unit with at least one of image data of a second image and a second piece of text data read out from said storage unit.