Patent ID: 6106113
Filing Date: 2000-08-22
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
The ink jet recording method in which an ink image is written on a transfer medium by a recording head and transferred to a recording medium, said recording head being opposed to said transfer medium and separated therefrom by a gap, and a main scanning and a subscanning are conducted on said transfer medium, wherein an ink image medium writing step is conducted by selectively ejecting ink drops from said recording head, said ink image writing step comprising:a) a first scanning step in which ink dot strings are formed in a main scanning direction so as not to adjoin each other in at least a subscanning direction;b) a second scanning step in which said recording head is moved in the subscanning direction and ink drops are impacted to positions which are not adjacent to an ink dot string which is lastly formed on said transfer medium in an immediately preceding scanning step; andc) a step in which said second scanning step is repeated until a desired ink image is written;wherein ink dot strings which are adjacent to each other on said transfer medium in the subscanning direction are formed by ink drops ejected from different nozzles of said recording head and wherein steps (a) to (c) are performed without setting nozzles in a printing area to an unused state.