Patent ID: 7215618

Claim:
An optical recording method of recording information on an optical recording medium, comprising the steps of: (a) recording a first test pattern in a first track on the optical recording medium under such a predetermined recording condition to form a wider recording mark than the first track; (b) after the recording of the first test pattern, recording a second test pattern in an area, of a second track, which is adjacent to a recording area of the first test pattern under a plurality of recording conditions, the second track being adjacent to the first track; (c) reading the second track to detect a second read-out signal according to each of the plurality of recording conditions; (d) obtaining a second recording condition under which the second read-out signal attains a predetermined state and performing a calculation on the second recording condition, so as to obtain a recording condition under which a wider recording mark is formed than under the second recording condition and designate this recording condition as an optimum recording condition; and (e) recording information in the second track under the optimum recording condition.