| abstract |
In an image printed by a printing apparatus, graininess particularly in a light part of the printed image is reduced by relatively simple structure by using a second color. To do so, magenta and cyan color component data in image data is subjected to under color removal to generate image data of a blue ink being the secondary color. On the basis of the data of the blue ink replaced for magenta and cyan, printing is performed by forming dots of the blue ink. At this time, black data is distributed into dark black and light black by density distribution, and the light black is substituted by the blue and yellow inks, whereby it is possible by the simple structure to prevent the graininess appeared when the cyan and magenta dots mutually appear biasedly and the graininess due to the black ink dots. |