A printer, a computer program and a method are provided for camouflaging
defective print elements in the printer having a printhead with a
plurality of print elements. The method includes (a) representing the
image information to be printed by a multi-level pixel matrix wherein a
grey level of each pixel is indicated by a number, (b) transferring the
grey levels of pixels that are assigned to a defective print element, to
neighboring pixels in the pixel matrix, and (c) converting the pixel
matrix having the transferred grey levels, into a bitmap to be printed.