Patent ID: 11904615
Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Field: Basic materials chemistry (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC B  C | IPC B  C

Claim 11:
12. An ink jet recording apparatus comprising:
a transport section that transports a recording medium;
a recording head that ejects a white ink containing a white coloring material and a non-white ink containing a non-white coloring material to adhere the white ink and the non-white ink to the recording medium, wherein a content of the white coloring material in the white ink is 1.0% by mass or more and 20.0% by mass or less;
a scanning section that causes the recording head to scan the recording medium; and
a controller that controls the transport section, the recording head, and the scanning section,
wherein the controller causes the white ink and the non-white ink to adhere to a region of the recording medium by a scan by the scanning section such that in the region, a mass ratio (A/B) of an adhesion amount A of the white coloring material to an adhesion amount B of the non-white coloring material per unit area is 0.03 or more and 0.99 or less.