Patent ID: 7971983

Claim:
An ink-jet recording method in which a plurality of pigment inks constituting an ink set for ink-jet recording are ejected from an ink-jet head onto a recording medium in order to form an ink-jet recording image on the recording medium, the ink-jet recording method comprising: preparing an ink-jet for ink jet recording comprising a plurality of pigment inks, wherein at least two pigment inks in the ink set are different in average particle diameter to each other; landing a first pigment ink in the ink set on the recording medium; and subsequently landing a second pigment ink in the ink set on the recording medium, an average particle diameter of the pigment comprised in the second pigment ink is equal to or larger than an average particle diameter of the pigment comprised in the first pigment ink, and a dynamic surface tension of the first pigment ink is equal to or less than a dynamic surface tension of the second pigment ink, and wherein these relationships between the first pigment ink and the second pigment ink on an average particle diameter of a pigment and on a dynamic surface tension of a pigment ink are satisfied for all of the pigment inks.