Patent ID: 7794045

Claim:
An ink-jet recording apparatus, comprising: a recording head including at least a first nozzle array configured to discharge a first ink and a second nozzle array configured to discharge a second ink, the first nozzle array and the second nozzle array being disposed along a feeding direction of a recording medium, the first ink and the second ink cohering with each other when mixed together; and an ink absorbent disposed at a position facing the first and second nozzle arrays, wherein during a frameless recording operation, some of the first and second ink discharged from the first and second nozzle arrays while the recording head moves in a direction orthogonal to the feeding direction of the recording medium adheres to an end of the recording medium, and wherein the first nozzle array and the second nozzle array are shifted with respect to each other in the feeding direction of the recording medium such that, during the frameless recording operation, the first ink not adhering to the end of the recording medium adheres to a first position on the ink absorbent and the second ink not adhering to the end of the recording medium adheres to a second position on the ink absorbent, and wherein the first nozzle array and the second nozzle array are disposed so as to partially overlap with each other in the moving direction of the recording head.