Patent ID: 9409413
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: B41J

Claim Text:
1. A recording apparatus comprising: a recording head configured to discharge a plurality of inks including a first color ink containing a pigment and a second color ink which contains a pigment and is different from the first color ink; and a recording control unit configured to, while scanning with the recording head at multiple times in a scan direction relative to a unit area in a recording medium, discharge the plurality of inks from the recording head to the unit area, thereby recording an image, wherein a dot diameter of the first color ink formed by discharging a predetermined amount of the first color ink onto a surface of the second color ink fixed on the recording medium is smaller than a dot diameter of the second color ink formed by discharging the predetermined amount of the second color ink onto a surface of the first color ink fixed on the recording medium, and wherein the recording head discharges the plurality of inks such that, with respect to pixels forming the image in the unit area, the pixels in the unit area include more pixels formed by discharging the first color ink by a scan of the recording head which is performed after a scan of the recording head with discharging the second color ink than pixels formed by discharging the second color ink by a scan of the recording head which is performed after a scan of the recording head with discharging the first color ink.