Patent ID: 7651214

Claim:
An ink jet recording apparatus, comprising: a white ink recording head for jetting a photocurable white ink onto a recording medium; a basic color ink recording head for jetting a photocurable basic color ink of a color other than white onto the recording medium; a light emitting device for emitting light to the white ink and the basic color ink on the recording medium to cure the inks; and a controlling device that controls the white ink recording head and the basic color ink recording head to conduct scanning movements in first and second directions to jet ink such that: (i) during the scanning movement in the first direction, the white ink recording head jets the white ink onto the recording medium, the light emitting device cures the white ink on the recording medium, and then the basic color ink recording head jets the basic color ink onto the recording medium and the light emitting device cures the basic color ink on the recording medium, and (ii) during the scanning movement in the second direction, the basic color ink recording head jets the basic color ink onto the recording medium, the light emitting device cures the basic color ink on the recording medium, and then the white ink recording head jets the white ink onto the recording medium and the light emitting device cures the white ink on the recording medium.