Patent ID: 7552984

Claim:
An inkjet recording apparatus that includes a recording head having a nozzle array of plural nozzles capable of discharging ink, wherein the inkjet recording apparatus shifts the recording head in forward and backward directions along a main scanning direction to perform scanning and recording operations for discharging the ink from the nozzles onto a recording medium to form an image, and the inkjet recording apparatus conveys the recording medium in a sub scanning direction intersectional to the main scanning direction, the inkjet recording apparatus comprising: an acquiring unit configured to obtain information relating to an inclination of the nozzle array of the recording head relative to the sub scanning direction; a dividing unit configured to divide the nozzle array into a plurality of sections; and a recording position correction unit configured to correct, in the main scanning direction, the position of dots recorded by a nozzle group of each section, wherein the recording position correction unit sets a recording position correction amount for each section based on the information relating to the inclination, so that a recording position correction amount in a forward scanning operation is different from a recording position correction amount in a backward scanning operation.