Patent ID: 7073888

Claim:
An ink jet recording apparatus, comprising: a first recording head section, having nozzle openings arranged at a pitch Pc, in a paper feed direction, as NP (N is an integer of four or more being not a prime number) when pitch of dots required for print is P; and a second recording head section, having: a plurality of sets of m nozzle openings (m is a divisor of two or more of N and m is not equal to N), the m nozzle openings of each set arranged at a pitch Pb 1 , in the paper feed direction, as P; where the lowest of the m nozzle openings of each set is spaced at a pitch Pb 3 from the uppermost of the m nozzle openings in a neighboring set, in the paper feed direction, as {Nâˆ’(mâˆ’1)}P, wherein image data is printed by the first recording head section and text data is printed by the second recording head section in the same path while paper feed is executed in units of mP.