1. A printing method for a printer having a printhead with a plurality of print elements and capable of printing a binary pixel image, the method comprising the steps of: locating defective print elements; determining a camouflage area in the vicinity of pixels that would have to be printed with the defective print elements; and camouflaging the defective print elements by modifying image information in the camouflage area, wherein the camouflaging step is incorporated in a halftoning step in which error diffusion is used for creating the binary pixel image, and comprises a step of modifying an error propagation scheme for the camouflage area.