In accordance with the present invention, a printing method for printing an image onto a medium includes printing a correction pattern by ejecting ink from a plurality of nozzles moving in a predetermined movement direction and forming, in an intersecting direction intersecting the movement direction, a plurality of lines extending along the movement direction and constituted by a plurality of dots, measuring a darkness of the correction pattern line by line, and printing the image with a plurality of the lines formed in the intersecting direction, while correcting the darkness of each line in accordance with correction values each corresponding to the darkness of each of the measured lines.