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1. A recording apparatus in which a recording medium and a plurality of nozzles including a plurality of nozzles for black which is lined up in a predetermined line-up direction to form black dots and a plurality of nozzles for color which is lined up in the line-up direction to form cyan, magenta and yellow color dots and composite black dots move relatively in a relative movement direction that is different from the line-up direction, the recording apparatus comprising:
a processing unit that forms composite black dots with a nozzle group included in the plurality of nozzles for color which forms the cyan, magenta and yellow color dots and at least one additional color dot, which is formed by a different nozzle positioned differently in the line-up direction, among the cyan, magenta and yellow color dots to complement dot loss pixels where the black dots are supposed to be formed by one failed nozzle included in the plurality of nozzles for black, wherein the processing unit includes:
a complementing unit that generates, on the basis of original data before complementation of the dot loss pixels where the black dots are supposed to be formed by the failed nozzle, recording data in which composite black dots that complement the dot loss pixels where the black dots are supposed to be formed by the failed nozzle are formed, anda dot forming unit that forms dots with the plurality of nozzles on the basis of the recording data, the complementing unit converts, among recording densities of black ink represented in the original data, a recording density of black ink that is used in recording by the failed nozzle into a recording density of complementing color ink that is used in recording by the nozzle group and generates the recording data that includes the obtained recording density of complementing color ink, and wherein the complementing unit sets the recording density of complementing color ink used in recording by each of the plurality of nozzles that is included in the nozzle group and is positioned differently in the line-up direction to a distribution ratio that is in accordance with an amount of inclination with respect to a reference of the line-up direction of the plurality of nozzles for black and the plurality of nozzles for color. |
