Patent ID: 7766473

Claim:
An inkjet recording apparatus comprising: a recording head having a plurality of ink ejection openings for ejecting photo-curable ink, which is cured by irradiation with light, onto a recording medium, the ink ejection openings being formed along a feeding direction of the recording medium; a light irradiation device including a light source for irradiating the ejected ink with light; a moving unit for reciprocally moving the recording head and the light irradiation device in a main scanning direction; a feeding unit for intermittently feeding the recording medium in the feeding direction by a predetermined amount at a time; and a control unit for ejecting ink needed for forming one band by reciprocally scanning the recording head n times to record an image, wherein the control unit controls the light irradiation device to irradiate the ink ejected in respective scans of first to (n−1)th scans and fully cure the ink with the light at the respective scans and irradiate the ink and fully cure the ink ejected in the nth scan at one of the (n+1)th and subsequent scans.