Abstract: An arrangement of discharge openings in a printhead of a multi-color ink printer includes n discharge openings for ink droplets of a black color formed in a first vertical row and m discharge openings in each row for ink droplets of further fundamental colors forming further vertical rows. The discharge openings of each row have a spacing "a" and after a first pass of the write head across a recording medium, the recording medium is moved relative to the write head by at least half a print line height, or by half the spacing "a" of the discharge openings. The number of discharge openings n of the first row and the spacing "a" is selected so that characters can be represented in draft quality for a single pass of the write head, the characters being represented in near-letter quality by multiple passes of the write head.