Patent ID: 6431671
Filing Date: 2002-08-13
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
An ink jet recording method for jetting an ink droplet of an ink liquid to an image receiving medium to form an image, comprising the steps of:a) mixing a plurality of types of ink to produce the ink liquid before a plurality of ink ejection ports, a mixture proportion of the plurality of types of ink being changed based on an image signal, at least one of said plurality of types of ink being an image non-forming ink for substantially forming no image after drying out; and b) ejecting the ink liquid from the respective ink ejection ports to form the ink droplets having the same volume, and to jet the ink droplets to the image receiving medium to form the image; wherein ink droplet ejecting means is disposed to the respective ink ejection ports, and wherein at least two of said ink droplet ejecting means are simultaneously driven by a common ejection driver.