Patent ID: 8672468

Claim:
A printing apparatus comprising: a head section having a nozzle row formed by a plurality of lined up nozzles each being configured to emit photocurable ink to be hardened upon being irradiated with light onto a target for printing, the head section having an irradiation section configured to irradiate the target for printing with the light; a moving section configured to relatively move the head section with respect to the target for printing in a crossing direction which crosses a direction of the lined up nozzles forming the nozzle row; and a controller configured to carry out control so as to emit the photocurable ink from the nozzles onto an image forming area of the target for printing having relatively moved by means of the moving section and to irradiate the photocurable ink having impacted on the image forming area from the irradiation section with the light, wherein the controller controls irradiation energy of the light that the irradiation section irradiates the image forming area with so that irradiation energy of the light that an edge area of the image forming area is irradiated with is smaller than irradiation energy of the light that an area of the image forming area adjacent to the edge area is irradiated with.