Method of printing swaths of an image on a substrate

[0022]The present invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein the same or similar elements are identified with the same reference numeral.

[0023]FIG. 1 shows an example of a portion of a printed image 10 that comprises, as image contents, a plurality of text elements 12 with different font sizes. In order to print the image 10, a print head is moved over a print substrate in a main scanning direction (x) in several subsequent scan passes, and a swath of the image 10 is printed in each pass. After each pass, the print substrate is advanced in a sub-scanning direction y by a distance corresponding to the width of the printed swath, so that another swath can be printed directly adjacent to the first swath. A boundary 14 between two adjacent swaths has been symbolized in FIG. 1 by a bold line that extends essentially in the main scanning direction x but is split into a plurality of straight segments that are slightly offset relative to one another in