Abstract: A printing apparatus performs printing on a printing medium by moving a print head relative to the printing medium in a main scanning direction, which is a width direction of the printing medium, and a sub-scanning direction that intersects the main scanning direction. The printing apparatus includes a print head that includes a plurality of nozzles configured to eject ink; an acquisition unit that acquires image data; and a dot forming unit that controls the print head so as to eject the ink to form dots corresponding to the image data on the printing medium. When suppression dots, which are dots formed to suppress bleeding, are formed on the printing medium, the dot forming unit controls the print head so that ink corresponding to the suppression dots is ejected from preceding nozzles arranged to eject ink to the printing medium earlier than other nozzles of the plurality of nozzles.