Patent ID: 7651215

Claim:
An ink jet recording apparatus, comprising: a black ink recording head for jetting a photocurable black ink onto a recording medium; a basic color ink recording head for jetting a photocurable basic color ink of a color other than black onto the recording medium; a light emitting device for emitting light to the black ink and the basic color ink on the recording medium to cure the inks; and a controlling device that controls the black ink recording head and the basic color ink recording head to conduct scanning movements in first and second directions to jet ink such that: (i) during the scanning movement in the first direction, the black ink recording head jets the black ink onto the recording medium, the light emitting device cures the black ink on the recording medium, and then the basic color ink recording head jets the basic color ink onto the recording medium and the light emitting device cures the basic color ink on the recording medium, and (ii) during the scanning movement in the second direction, the basic color ink recording head jets the basic color ink onto the recording medium, the light emitting device cures the basic color ink on the recording medium, and then the black ink recording head jets the black ink onto the recording medium and the light emitting device cures the black ink on the recording medium.