Patent ID: 8226225

Claim:
An inkjet recording apparatus comprising: an ink droplet ejection device which ejects and deposits a droplet of an ink containing a coloring material onto an ink droplet deposition position on a surface of a recording body; a treatment liquid deposition device which ejects and deposits a droplet of a treatment liquid onto a treatment liquid droplet deposition position on the surface of the recording body, the deposited treatment liquid and the deposited ink reacting with each other to cause the coloring material contained in the deposited ink to aggregate so as to produce a mixture of a solvent and a coloring material aggregate on the surface of the recording body, the coloring material aggregate having a greater specific weight than the solvent and being not dissolved and not dispersed in the solvent; and an absorbing body which absorbs the solvent in the mixture having been produced on the surface of the recording body through solvent absorption holes arranged in a surface of the absorbing body, wherein when the surface of the absorbing, body makes contact with the mixture having been produced for one isolated droplet of the ink on the surface of the recording body, an opening diameter of each of the solvent absorption holes is larger than a spreading width of the coloring material aggregate and smaller than a spreading width of the solvent which is larger than the spreading width of the coloring material aggregate.