Patent ID: 6908167

Claim:
An ink-jet recording apparatus comprising: a recording head having an ink channel and a nozzle; and an electromechanical converting device for changing a volume of the ink channel to cause an ink droplet to be jetted from the nozzle; wherein before an ink droplet jetting operation is conducted and without jetting the ink droplet, an ink meniscus in the nozzle is vibrated finely by performing a plurality of times: (i) a pushing out process of pushing the ink meniscus out from a surface of the nozzle such that a peak distance of the ink meniscus from the surface of the nozzle is at least substantially equal to a radius of the nozzle, and (ii) a pulling process of pulling in the ink meniscus into the nozzle toward the ink channel past a repose position of the ink meniscus.