Patent ID: 6293670
Filing Date: 2001-09-25
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
A recording method for performing ink jet recording while preventing a recording medium from being in contact with an ink jet recording head when an ink jet image is formed on the recording medium by serially moving the ink jet recording head having a plurality of ink discharge ports arranged in an array along a conveyance direction of the recording medium, said method comprising the steps of:providing a platen having a planar section upstream in the conveyance direction and a slant section slanted downstream in the conveyance direction and in a direction parting from the ink discharge ports, opposed to an array of the ink discharge ports when the ink jet recording head serially moves;conveying the recording medium onto the planar section of the platen;forming an ink jet image on the recording medium by ink discharge from the ink discharge ports when the ink jet recording head moves at least three times across a same area of the recording medium, a reverse side of which is supported by the platen, the recording medium being deformed in a wave form on the platen by ink deposition by first ink discharge and the deformation in the wave form being increased by ink deposition by a subsequent ink discharge; andpreventing the recording medium deformed in the wave form from contacting the ink jet recording head by conveying the recording medium expelled downstream from the ink jet recording head to be close to the slant section of the platen relative to a plane extending downstream of the planar section of the platen.