Patent ID: 8641162

Claim:
An ink jet recording apparatus which performs recording of an image by discharging ink droplets onto a recording medium comprising: a casing; a first transport section which transports the recording medium, in a first transport direction or a second transport direction which is a reverse direction of the first transport direction, in which a first distance is a distance ranging from a first position as an end of the recording medium at a downstream side in the first transport direction to a second position as an end to be subjected to the recording of the image; a recording section which is provided in the casing on the downstream side in the first transport direction with respect to the first transport section, which includes a plurality of nozzles formed in the recording section over a nozzle forming area ranging from a third position to a fourth position that is located on an upstream side of the first transport direction and is separated from the third position by a second distance, and which records the image on the recording medium by discharging the ink droplets from the nozzles: an interference member which is provided in the ink-jet recording apparatus at a position separated from the third position by a third distance in the downstream side in the first transport direction, the third distance being smaller than the first distance and a total of the second distance and the third distance being greater than the first distance; and a control unit which controls the recording section to record the image on the recording medium so that under the condition that a fourth distance is less than a fifth distance, the recording section uses parts of the nozzles, which are separated from the third position in the second transport direction opposite to the first transport direction by not less than a sixth distance, wherein the fourth distance is a distance between the second position and the image recording position located on the most downstream side in the first transport direction in an image recording range in relation to the recording medium, the fifth distance is a distance obtained by subtracting the third distance from the first distance, and the sixth distance is a distance obtained by subtracting the fourth distance from the fifth distance.