Patent ID: 8733894

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a glitter ink nozzle capable of discharging a glitter ink to a medium; a first color ink nozzle capable of discharging a first color ink to the medium; and a second color ink nozzle capable of discharging a second color ink that is different from the first color ink to the medium, and the recording apparatus recording: a glitter color image on the medium through superimposing a glitter image formed by discharging the glitter ink and a color image formed by discharging at least one of the first color ink and the second color ink, wherein the recording apparatus records a color sample table including: a first pattern obtained by superimposing the glitter image and the color image; and a second pattern obtained by superimposing the glitter image and the color image having substantially the same color as that of the color image of the first pattern but different glossiness from that of the first pattern by using the first color ink or the second color ink at a different ink amount per unit area from that of the color image of the first pattern.