Patent ID: 8702225

Claim:
An inkjet recording apparatus comprising: an image forming device including nozzle rows which are provided to correspond to inks that are curable by irradiation of an active light beam and have different curing characteristics respectively, and which have nozzles arranged for ejecting the inks; a relative movement device which causes relative movement between the nozzle rows and a recording medium on which the inks ejected from the nozzles are deposited; an ejection control device which controls ink ejection from the image forming device with respect to each of divided units obtained by dividing the nozzle rows into a plurality of units, so as to form layers on the recording medium by the inks ejected from the respective divided units in such a manner that the layers that are formed by the inks ejected from the different divided units are superimposed on each other; an active light beam irradiation device which irradiates the active light beam onto the inks that have been ejected onto the recording medium; and an irradiation light amount variation device which is capable of varying an amount of irradiation light from the active light beam irradiation device, in accordance with the curing characteristics of the inks in the respective layers on the recording medium, wherein the irradiation light amount variation device moves the active light beam irradiation device in such a manner that an irradiation range of the active light beam irradiation device corresponds to an ejection position of the ink which has relatively low sensitivity with respect to the active light beam and has a slow curing speed.