An inkjet recording apparatus, comprising: a recording head, driven by each drive phase of a three-phase current, having nozzle rows of three nozzle rows (3m, 3m+1, 3m+2) in which a plurality of nozzles (N3m, N3m+1, N3m+2) are disposed in a staggered arrangement with an interval of L/3 in the main scanning direction where L denotes a pixel pitch; and a control device to drive each nozzle row of the recording head in a sequence from one of the three nozzle rows located at an end (N3m+2) to one of the three nozzle rows located in front (N3m) in a relative moving direction of the recording head with respect to a recording medium, and to move the recording head at a moving speed of 2 x L x f in a main scanning direction, wherein f represents a predetermined ejection frequency for each nozzle row of the recording head, wherein the control device performs multi-pass recording in such a way that when one pass of scan by the recording head in the main scanning direction is completed, the control device moves the recording medium with respect to the recoding head in a sub-scanning direction which is perpendicular to the main scanning direction by a distance of a predetermined multiple of the pixel pitch, and in a subsequent pass of scan in the main scanning direction, the control device controls the recording head so that ink is ejected from each nozzle to a pixel position other than a pixel position where the ink has landed in the preceding scan by the recording head on the recording medium so as to record an image on the recording medium by landing the ink on each pixel on the recording medium, characterized in that the pixel positions in a line in the main scanning direction are filled with ink droplets from different nozzles. a recording head, driven by each drive phase of a three-phase current, having nozzle rows of three nozzle rows (3m, 3m+1, 3m+2) in which a plurality of nozzles (N3m, N3m+1, N3m+2) are disposed in a staggered arrangement with an interval of L/3 in the main scanning direction where L denotes a pixel pitch; and a control device to drive each nozzle row of the recording head in a sequence from one of the three nozzle rows located at an end (N3m+2) to one of the three nozzle rows located in front (N3m) in a relative moving direction of the recording head with respect to a recording medium, and to move the recording head at a moving speed of 2 x L x f in a main scanning direction, wherein f represents a predetermined ejection frequency for each nozzle row of the recording head, wherein the control device performs multi-pass recording in such a way that when one pass of scan by the recording head in the main scanning direction is completed, the control device moves the recording medium with respect to the recoding head in a sub-scanning direction which is perpendicular to the main scanning direction by a distance of a predetermined multiple of the pixel pitch, and in a subsequent pass of scan in the main scanning direction, the control device controls the recording head so that ink is ejected from each nozzle to a pixel position other than a pixel position where the ink has landed in the preceding scan by the recording head on the recording medium so as to record an image on the recording medium by landing the ink on each pixel on the recording medium, characterized in that the pixel positions in a line in the main scanning direction are filled with ink droplets from different nozzles.