Patent ID: 8807735

Claim:
An inkjet recording apparatus comprising: a plurality of jetting heads that jet respectively different types of photocurable color inks onto a conveyed recording medium and which, when layer-jetting the different types of photocurable color inks onto the recording medium, first jet the photocurable color ink having the largest light blocking effect among the plurality of photocurable color inks that the plurality of jetting heads layer-jet; and an irradiation device that applies light to the photocurable color inks that have been jetted onto the recording medium; wherein when the plurality of jetting heads layer-jet the photocurable color inks, the plurality of jetting heads jet the photocurable color inks in descending order of light blocking effect; and the plurality of jetting heads are placed from upstream to downstream in a conveyance direction of the recording medium in such a way as to jet the photocurable color inks in descending order of light blocking effect.