Printing device and printing method

A printing method using the printing device which prints on a printing medium and is provided with a printing head, a control section which moves the printing head in a scanning direction and relatively moves either one of the head or the printing medium in a direction which intersects the scanning direction, and a discharge control section, where the printing head is provided with a plurality of color nozzle rows which are arranged to line up in an intersecting direction and the plurality of nozzles, which discharge color ink of the same color, are arranged in the intersecting direction for each color nozzle row, and a black ink nozzle row which is a nozzle row, which is arranged to line up with the color nozzle rows and where black ink is discharged, and which has a black ink nozzle group of the same number as the number of rows of the color ink, the method comprising:

• forming dots using the black ink nozzle group by allocating each black ink nozzle group which is set in accordance with each color ink nozzle row such that the recording sequence of the color dots and the black dots, which are recorded in an adjacent region where dots are recorded on the medium, is not the same.