Printing apparatus

A printing apparatus comprising:

• a feeder that feeds a medium in a feeding direction;
• a head that at least includes a nozzle row in which a plurality of nozzles are located side by side in the feeding direction and that is movable in a scanning direction;
• an irradiator that radiates light onto a region longer in the feeding direction than the nozzle row and that is movable in the scanning direction together with the head;
• and
• a controller that causes, in alternating fashion:
• the head to move in the scanning direction and concurrently the nozzles to discharge ink while causing the irradiator to radiate the light;
• and
• the feeder to feed the medium in the feeding direction;
• wherein
• the controller is capable of dividing the nozzle row into an upstream-side nozzle row and a downstream-side nozzle row located on a downstream side in the feeding direction from the upstream-side nozzle row, and individually controlling discharge of ink from the nozzles of each of the upstream-side nozzle row and the downstream-side nozzle row;
• the controller is capable of dividing the irradiator into an upstream-side irradiator, an intermediate irradiator adjacent to the upstream-side irradiator on a downstream side in the feeding direction, and a printless region irradiator adjacent to the intermediate irradiator on a downstream side in the feeding direction, and individually controlling lighting and extinguishing of each of the irradiators defined by the division;
• the upstream-side irradiator overlaps a range of the upstream-side nozzle row in the feeding direction;
• the intermediate irradiator overlaps a range of the downstream-side nozzle row in the feeding direction;
• the printless region irradiator is located farther on a downstream side in the feeding direction than the downstream-side nozzle row without overlapping the range of the downstream-side nozzle row in the feeding direction;
• and
• the controller performs, in alternating fashion, an operation and control to cause the feeder to feed the medium in the feeding direction and to cause the head to move in the scanning direction and concurrently cause the nozzles of the upstream-side nozzle row and the downstream-side nozzle row to discharge ink while having the upstream-side irradiator lit, the intermediate irradiator extinguished, and the printless region irradiator lit.