Patent ID: 8215740

Claim:
An inkjet recording apparatus, comprising: a recording unit configured to cause a recording head to discharge a first ink that contains a pigment and no resin or a smaller amount of resin per unit volume than an amount of resin per unit volume contained in a second ink, and the second ink that contains a pigment and a resin, and to perform recording by a plurality of scanning operations of the recording head over the same area of a recording medium and by causing the recording head to discharge the first ink and the second ink in accordance with recording data in accordance with a mask pattern which divides the recording data of the second ink into divided data corresponding to the plurality of scanning operations to a recording medium; an obtaining unit configured to obtain a discharging amount of the first ink and a discharging amount of the second ink in the plurality of pixels; a selecting unit configured to select the mask pattern; and a scanning unit configured to cause the recording head to scan over the recording medium, wherein, when the discharging amount of the second ink is smaller than the discharging amount of the first ink, the selecting unit selects, as the mask pattern, a mask pattern which has the sum of the recording permissibilities of the former half of the plurality of scanning operations smaller than the sum of the recording permissibilities of the later half of the plurality of scanning operations, for the second ink, and wherein, when the discharging amount of the second ink is larger than the discharging amount of the first ink, the selecting unit selects, as the mask pattern, a mask pattern having substantially equivalent recording permissibilities for the plurality of scanning operations, for the second ink.