Patent ID: 6533382
Filing Date: 2003-03-18
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
An ink-jet recording method which uses a recording head having a nozzle array comprised of at least one ink discharging nozzle for discharging ink which contains color material and at least one liquid discharging nozzle for discharging a liquid which essentially does not contain color material being alternately adjacently arrayed in a predetermined direction, and the ink and the liquid being discharged on a recording medium while relatively scanning the recording head and the recording medium, thereby recording an image, the recording method comprising the steps of:determining whether to record at least one area of the image with the ink alone, or to record the area with both the ink and the liquid; and performing the recording of the area based on the results determined in the determining step, wherein, in the event of recording the area with both the ink and the liquid, in the recording step the ink discharged from a predetermined ink discharging nozzle and the liquid discharged from a predetermined liquid discharging nozzle adjacent to the predetermined ink discharging nozzle each land at different positions on the recording medium, and the landed ink and the landed liquid come into contact on the recording medium.