Patent ID: 7182424

Claim:
An ink jet recording process comprising the steps of: (a) applying an image formation ink and a reactive clear ink one over the other onto a recording medium with a recording head to form a dot which may be a mixed dot comprising the image formation ink and the reactive clear ink, or a dot omission, comprising the image formation ink but not the clear ink; and (b) detecting dot omission, in which the presence or absence of dot omission of a first dot is judged by measuring the image density of the first dot, wherein the dot omission detecting step is a step of judging the dot omission of the reactive clear ink as absent when the image density of the first dot exceeds a reference value, and judging the dot omission of the reactive clear ink as present when the image density of the first dot is equal to or less than the reference value, wherein the reference value is based on the image density of a single dot formed by independently recording with the image formation ink only, and wherein the reference value satisfies the following equation: Reference value=Image density of the single dot+α wherein α≧0.