Patent ID: 7798630

Claim:
An ink-jet recording device, which comprises: a storing section that stores the ink curable by irradiation with an actinic energy ray to form an image on a recording medium; an image recording section that comprises an ink-jet head and is discharged the ink as a droplet, the ink being fed from the storing section, onto the recording medium by an electrostatic force generated between the ink jet head and the recording medium; a transporting and supporting section that comprises a placing surface, the transporting and supporting section transporting the recording medium and supporting the recording medium at a discharge position of the ink on the placing surface; an irradiating section, which is an ultraviolet region LED, disposed at a position that can irradiate the recording medium with the actinic energy ray immediately after the ink is impacted on the recording medium; wherein the image recording section comprises: an insulating substrate that has discharge nozzles; an ink guide that is disposed so that a tip of the ink guide is protruded toward a side of the recording medium from each of the discharge nozzles; a discharge electrode that is disposed surrounding the periphery of the ink guide at each of the discharge nozzles, each of the discharge nozzles being separated from one another; and wherein a ratio of an effective inside diameter of the discharge electrode to a distance in a protrusion direction of the ink guide between the tip of the ink guide and the discharge electrode is 1:0.5 to 1:2.