Patent ID: 7429094

Claim:
An ink-jet recording device, which drives an ink-jet recording head mounted on a carriage and including multiple nozzles, while main-scanning by moving the carriage in a direction generally orthogonal to a sheet-feeding direction of a sheet, so as to record on the sheet, the ink-jet recording device comprising: a dot pattern recording unit configured to form a first dot pattern of a predetermined size in a main-scanning direction, with predetermined intervals, by driving a predetermined number of nozzles located at one end portion of the recording head, and to form a second dot pattern of the predetermined size in the main-scanning direction, with the predetermined intervals, by driving a predetermined number of nozzles located at the other end portion of the recording head, and the first dot pattern and the second dot pattern are formed alternately in the main-scanning direction, wherein a sheet-feeding is performed, after the first dot pattern has been formed and before forming the second dot pattern, such that the predetermined number of nozzles located at the other end portion of the recording head face the first dot pattern.