Patent ID: 8439480

Claim:
An inkjet recording apparatus comprising an ink line head equipped with nozzle rows having a plurality of nozzles arranged at a predetermined pitch for discharging an ink containing a coloring material, and a fixing liquid line head equipped with nozzle rows having a plurality of nozzles arranged at a predetermined pitch for discharging a fixing liquid which enhances the fixture of the ink to a recording medium, and which performs a record by discharging the ink and the fixing liquid from each line head to the recording medium while moving the recording medium and each line head relatively in a predetermined direction, wherein each of the nozzle rows of the ink line head and the nozzle rows of the fixing liquid line head are arranged adjoiningly for each color so that they are deviated from each other by one half of the predetermined pitch in a nozzle row direction, wherein the inkjet recording apparatus further comprises two sets of the combination of the ink line head and the fixing liquid line head, and the two ink line heads discharge ink containing the same color material, wherein the nozzle rows of one ink line head and the nozzle rows of one fixing liquid line head in one line head set each are arranged so that they deviate from another ink line head and nozzle rows of another fixing liquid line head in another line head set by one half of the predetermined pitch in the nozzle row direction.