Patent ID: 8506070

Claim:
A recording method, comprising the steps of: (1) forming a first metallic luster surface having a first specular glossiness on a recording medium by (a) discharging droplets of an ink composition, and adhering the droplets to the recording medium to form a first dot group using an ink jet recording apparatus, wherein the droplets discharged to the recording medium comprise a first amount of the ink composition; and (b) adhering a lustrous ink composition containing a color material containing plate-like particles at least onto the first dot group to form a second dot group wherein the first dot group is formed in such a manner as to have a pattern on the surface; and the pattern has an arithmetic average roughness (Ra) of a roughness curve defined in Japanese Industrial Standard JIS B0601:2001 of 0.4 to 1.4 μm; and (2) forming a second metallic luster surface on the recording medium by repeating steps (a) and (b) with the proviso that a different amount of the ink composition is discharged onto the recording medium in step (a) so that the second metallic luster surface formed on the recording medium has a different specular glossiness than the first specular glossiness.