| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printing device capable of reducing a banding phenomenon due to a flying-curve phenomenon. <P>SOLUTION: The printing device for printing a plurality of dots on a medium used for printing includes a print head 200 having a plurality of print elements for forming dots disposed respectively in row direction, which is a direction of relative movement thereof with respect to the medium, and in an array direction, which is substantially orthogonal to the row direction, the print elements being capable of printing dots at positions which can be regarded as the same positions on the medium in the row direction, a selecting information generating means 19 for selecting any one of the print elements being capable of printing dots at positions which can be regarded as the same positions on the medium in the row direction as a usable print element, a print element selecting means 20 that selects the usable print element based on the information and a print head controlling means 22 for controlling the print head so that only the usable print element is used. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT |
