Method of printing a substrate and a printing device suitable for use of the method

An apparatus for printing a substrate with ink drops, image-wise, which comprises

• an inkjet printing device containing at least one print head provided with at least one row of nozzles,
• said substrate forming a regular field of pixel rows and pixel columns, the resolution of the pixel columns being equal to the resolution of the row of nozzles,
• means for initiating a first printing stage in which a strip of pixel rows is provided with ink drops, said print head being displaced in a direction substantially parallel to the pixel columns, and
• means for initiating a second printing stage in which the strip is provided with supplementary ink drops, wherein the print head is displaced over a distance which is not selected from a plurality of distances but which is a fixed distance such that the same is always substantially equal to the width of one pixel row.