To provide a printing method capable of preferably performing an additional printing accompanying addition of recording data when printing is performed on a printing layer while an optical recording medium is rotated.

The optical recording medium M includes a recording/reproducing function layer 2 or 24 capable of performing recording or reproduction by a laser beam, an information recording/reproducing surface 3 into which the laser beam comes, and a printing layer 4 or 25 existing at the opposite side of the information recording/reproducing surface so as to sandwich the recording/reproducing function layer 2 or 24. Printing is performed on the printing layer and data for printing used for printing are recorded in the optical recording medium M.

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