Patent ID: 7246867

Claim:
An ink jet recording apparatus comprising: a black print head that discharges black ink; a color print head that discharges color ink having a higher permeability with a recording paper sheet than the black ink; and a determining unit that detects, based on input data, a black image region in which recording is performed with the black ink and a color image region in which recording is performed with the color ink, and, based on the detection result, determines whether the black ink or the color ink is first applied onto the recording paper sheet, wherein each of the black print head and the color print head having nozzles divided into a plurality of sets, and a multi-path recording operation being performed by scanning each recording region a plurality of times with the plurality of sets of nozzles, and wherein the black ink and the color ink are not applied in adjacent regions in the same recording scan, the black ink being applied first in regions in which the black ink region and the color ink region are adjacent to each other.