To solve the problem in which it has been difficult to combine a serial scan type ink jet printing apparatus with a conventional cloth pattern- correcting device.

This printing apparatus is equipped with a fabric-transporting part for transporting a fabric C by using one side end in the width direction as a basis, a cloth pattern-correcting part 12 for correcting cloth pattern of the fabric C by using the center in the width direction of the fabric C as a basis, a printing part 43 for carrying out printing to the fabric by using, as a basis, one side end in the width direction of the fabric C immediately after cloth pattern was corrected by the cloth pattern-correcting part 12, and a centering and driving part 32 capable of changing a position of the cloth pattern- correcting part 12 in the width direction of the fabric C according to width size of the fabric C printed by the printing part 43.