Printing apparatuses are provided. In one embodiment, a printing apparatus includes a head, a transport mechanism, and a print control section. The head has at least one special ink nozzle that ejects special ink on a printing medium and at least one ordinary ink nozzle that ejects ordinary ink on the printing medium. The transport mechanism transports the printing medium relative to the head. The print control section controls the head and the transport mechanism, thereby printing an image on the printing medium using the special ink and the ordinary ink. The at least one special ink nozzle and the at least one ordinary ink nozzle are offset from each other along a direction in which the printing medium is transported and are arranged in the order in which dots of the special ink and dots of the ordinary ink are superimposed.