Patent ID: 7537332

Claim:
An ink-jet recording device comprising: an irradiating unit that irradiates an ultraviolet ray; an ink-jet head that ejects an ink toward a recording medium, the ink capable of curing by the ultraviolet ray irradiated from the irradiating unit; a conveying unit that conveys the recording medium to a position opposed to the ink-jet head; and a filter unit comprising a photocatalyst activated by the ultraviolet ray to decompose organic components of the ink, wherein the filter unit is disposed on a line in an irradiating direction of the ultraviolet ray irradiated from the irradiating unit toward the recording medium and on a side of the recording medium opposite the irradiating unit, and the filter unit is irradiated with the ultraviolet ray before and after the recording medium passes across the ultraviolet ray irradiated by the irradiating unit.