Patent ID: 8336989

Claim:
An ink jet recording apparatus for recording an image by discharging ink to a recording medium from a recording head on the basis of image information comprising: a recovery unit for draining the ink from a black-ink discharge portion for discharging black ink and a color-ink discharge portion for discharging color ink which reacts with the black ink; an ink absorbing member for collecting the ink which is drained by the recovery unit and separating the ink into a solid part and a liquid part; an ink introduction unit for introducing both of the black-ink and the color-ink which is drained by the recovery unit, into the ink absorbing member; and a transfer member which does not absorb the ink introduced by the ink introduction unit directly, but transfers both of the black ink and the color-ink to the ink absorbing member, wherein the transfer member is separately arranged below an outlet of the ink introduction unit.