Carriage positioning for multiple impact printing

摘要

In a printing device capable of executing printing operation in a bold face print mode, provided are means for controlling a carriage so as to be stopped in a predetermined period of time before the first printing operation is executed so that an inconvenient vibration of the carriage is attenuated, and means for executing a plurality of printing operations included in a bold-face print after the vibration is sufficiently attenuated. Thus, qualities of the printed characters in the bold-face print mode are extremely uniform with each other.