US Patent 7533952 Printing method, printing apparatus, and computer-readable medium

Degradation in the image quality of a print image is suppressed even in a case where a head is installed at an angle with respect to its movement direction. A printing method includes the following steps: a step of performing a carrying operation for carrying a medium; a step of performing, during an interim of the carrying operation, a moving-and-ejecting operation for ejecting ink at a same timing from a plurality of nozzles onto the medium while moving the nozzles relative to the medium; and a step of changing, every time the carrying operation is performed, the timing at which the ink is ejected from the plurality of nozzles in accordance with a carry amount of the carrying operation that has actually been performed.