Patent ID: 8147053

Claim:
An ink-jet recording apparatus comprising: a transporting device transporting an ink-jet recording medium having on a support an ink receiving layer that comprises inorganic fine particles, a water-soluble resin, and a crosslinking agent; an ink ejection device ejecting onto the ink-jet recording medium an ink that comprises a dye, water, and a water-soluble organic solvent, the water-soluble organic solvent having a rate of change in micropore median size in the ink receiving layer of 13.0% or less as measured by the mercury intrusion method before and after the ink is applied onto the ink receiving layer in an amount of 6.6 g/m 2 and being contained in a ratio of at least 40% by mass with respect to an entire amount of water-soluble organic solvent; and a drying device drying at least the ink on the ink-jet recording medium.