Patent attributes
A printing method includes: creating print data by rearranging an order in which pixel data are arranged; and based on the print data, alternately repeating a dot-forming process for forming, on a medium, a row of dots along a movement direction by ejecting ink from a plurality of nozzles which move in the movement direction and a carrying process for carrying the medium in a carrying direction with respect to the nozzles, to form rows of dots arranged in the carrying direction. In a case where normal printing for forming the rows of dots in a central portion of the medium is to be performed after upper-end printing, positions of the rows of dots to be formed by the nozzles during a certain dot-forming process performing the upper-end printing are stored in a table, a comparing process is performed, and matching positions are delated from the table.
