Patent ID: 7083248

Claim:
An ink jet recording method using a recording head capable of ejecting a first ink comprising a coloring material with a relatively small particle size φd and a second ink comprising a coloring material with a relatively large particle size φp, the first ink and the second ink being ejected to the same side of a recording medium, the method comprising the steps of: selecting a specific recording medium comprising a porous layer and a base or a recording medium other than the specific recording medium as the recording medium used for recording; and when the specific recording medium is selected, ejecting the first ink from the recording head to the porous layer and then ejecting the second ink from the recording head to the porous layer, while relatively moving the recording medium and the recording head, wherein the porous layer has a gap size φh that is larger than the particle size φd and smaller than the particle size φp, and wherein an image recorded with the first ink is viewed from a base side of the recording medium, and an image recorded with the second ink is viewed from a porous layer side.