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(11) | EP 3 196 039 A3 |
| (12) | EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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| (54) | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD |
| (57) A printing apparatus is provided with a printing mechanism section that forms an
image by discharging an ink toward a recording medium while reciprocating with respect
to the recording medium, a pass analysis section that specifies a discharge position
of the ink in an outgoing path and a return path of the printing mechanism section,
an execution section that executes discharge position alteration correction, which
alters the discharge position so that ink to be discharged in one path of either the
outgoing path or the return path, is discharged in the other path, and a determination
section that performs determination of whether or not the execution section performs
the discharge position alteration correction.
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