PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printing apparatus which can secure a dot positional accuracy of ink while enabling high-speed printing without lowering a printing density in the case of printing characters and line images. SOLUTION: The printing apparatus includes a first head which has a plurality of nozzles arranged at a predetermined pitch in a predetermined direction, a second head which has a plurality of nozzles arranged at the predetermined pitch in the predetermined direction to overlap the first nozzles in the predetermined direction and is spaced from the first head by a predetermined distance in a direction that intersects the predetermined direction, and a controller which controls the first head and the second head so that only one of the first head and second head prints the contour of the character or of the line image when the character or line image is to be printed in the direction that intersects the predetermined direction and so that the first head and the second head print a section other than contours of the character and the line image. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT