Patent ID: 6086185
Filing Date: 2000-07-11
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
An ink jet recording method for obtaining a multi-color image comprising the steps of:providing an ink jet recording apparatus in which a recording head is scanned in a main scan direction relative to a recording medium to record an image and the recording medium is scanned relatively in a sub-scan direction perpendicular to the main scan direction, the recording head having a group of m black discharge elements for discharging black ink and a plurality of groups of n color discharge elements (m.gtoreq.2n) for discharging color inks and the groups of the discharge elements corresponding to the black ink and the color irk being arranged in an arranging direction and being not overlapped with each other in the main scan direction;recording by selecting at least one predetermined discharge element among the group of m black discharge elements in a case of forming an image in which an image formed by black ink is adjacent to an image formed by color ink, the selected at least one predetermined black discharge element being separated from the color discharge elements by a plurality of non-selected black discharge elements and being spaced apart from each other by a distance of at least n discharge elements at least in the arranging direction of the discharge elements; andconveying the recording medium by a distance corresponding to the n discharge elements.