Printer and printing method

摘要

A flatbed type printer (10) includes a table (14) on or over which a print medium including a flat print surface is placed, a print head (20), a projecting unit (24) configured to project a Gray code pattern on the table, an image taking unit (26) configured to take an image of the projected Gray code pattern, a generating unit (50) configured to generate a first spatial code image using an image taken with no print medium placed and to generate a second spatial code image using an image taken with the print medium placed, a generating unit (52) configured to generate an image of the print surface using the first and second spatial code images, a normalizing unit (54) configured to normalize the print surface in the image of the print surface, and a converting unit (56) configured to convert print data edited on the normalized print surface into data printable on the pre-normalization print surface.