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A printing method includes performing a first printing process that alternately repeats a first carrying operation and a dot forming operation and performing a second printing process that alternately repeats a second carrying operation and the dot forming operation when printing an image at an edge portion of a medium upstream in a carrying direction. The first carrying operation is an operation that carries the medium by a first carrying amount in the carrying direction, and the dot forming operation is an operation that forms a dot line on the medium by ejecting ink from a plurality of nozzles aligned in the carrying direction, a plurality of the nozzles includes a nozzle opposed to a convex portion, of a supporting member, that is in contact with the carried medium and a nozzle opposed to a concave portion, of the supporting member, that is not in contact with the carried medium. The second carrying operation is an operation which carries the medium by a second carrying amount smaller than the first carrying amount. The printing method performs a third carrying operation after a certain dot forming operation in the case where if the first carrying operation is performed after the certain dot forming operation, a most-upstream nozzle positioned most upstream in the carrying direction of a plurality of the nozzles is positioned more upstream in the carrying direction than a lower edge's most-downstream position that is a position of the edge portion of the medium at the time the medium is carried to a most downstream side in the carrying direction, and if the third carrying operation and the dot forming operation are performed after the certain dot forming operation, and the second printing process is performed thereafter, a dot line to be formed more upstream than the lower edge's most-downstream position of the medium that is carried so that the edge portion is positioned more upstream in the carrying direction than the lower edge's most-downstream position can be formed without using the nozzle opposed to the convex portion. Here, the third carrying operation is an operation which carries the medium by the third carrying amount larger than the second carrying amount.
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