Patent ID: 7513599
Filing Date: 2009-04-07
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. An inkjet recording apparatus comprising: a recording head including a plurality of short chips, each having a plurality of ink nozzles, configured to eject the same kind of the ink, the short chips being arranged in a direction intersecting with a conveying direction of a recording medium, the recording head being configured to record on the recording medium that is conveyed in the conveying direction ejecting ink from the nozzles of the short chips; and at least one rotational body arranged adjacent to the recording head on the downstream side in the conveying direction, wherein the short chips comprise a first chip and a second chip arranged on the downstream of the first chip in the conveying direction, and the nozzles of the first chip eject ink on a first region of a surface of the recording medium earlier than the nozzles of the second chip eject ink on the second region of the surface of the recording medium, and wherein the rotational body is arranged at a position where the rotational body contacts the first region of the surface of the recording medium and the rotational body does not contact the second region of the surface of the recording medium.