Patent ID: 7438405

Claim:
An ink jet recording method of recording an image using an ink set for ink jet recording comprising a black ink and color inks including at least cyan, magenta, and yellow inks, the black ink comprising a colorant, an organic solvent, a coagulable agent and water, and at least one of the color inks being a coagulant-containing color ink comprising a colorant, an organic solvent and a coagulant, wherein the image is printed in such a manner that: a contact angle of each of the black ink and the color inks to a recording material becomes about 50° or less after 1 second of contact; a printing density of the black ink becomes about 2.5 to about 4 mg/inch 2 ; a total printing density of the coagulant-containing color ink used becomes about 0.8 to about 4 mg/inch 2 ; and a total printing density of the black ink and the coagulant-containing color ink used becomes about 6 mg/inch 2 or less.