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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2013
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Tomonaga Hasegawa, Nagano, JP;
Kazuyoshi Tanase, Nagano, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing method where ink is discharged by a nozzle row, which has a plurality of nozzles, being relatively moved in a main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction with regard to a print medium, and printing of a print image is performed to be formed of an independent region where raster lines, which are dot rows lined up in the main scanning direction, are completed in one main scanning and an overlapping region where the raster lines are completed in a plurality of main scannings, the printing method comprising: allocating whether each of the dots of the overlapping region is formed in either a preceding main scanning or a following main scanning in the plurality of main scannings; and performing the preceding main scanning and the following main scanning in an order which corresponds to the result of the allocating.