Patent ID: 8851609

Claim:
An inkjet recording apparatus, comprising: an inkjet head which has a plurality of nozzle arrays including a first nozzle array in which a plurality of nozzles configured to eject a first ink that is cured by irradiation with activation light are arranged, and a second nozzle array in which a plurality of nozzles configured to eject a second ink that has a curing characteristic different from a curing characteristic of the first ink are arranged; a scanning device which is configured to reciprocally move the inkjet head in a first direction with respect to a recording medium on which the first ink and the second ink ejected from the inkjet head are deposited; a relative movement device which is configured to relatively move the recording medium with respect to the inkjet head in a second direction that is not parallel to the first direction; an ejection control device which is configured to control ink ejection of the inkjet head for each of units of divided nozzle regions obtained by dividing each of the nozzle arrays into a plurality of regions in the second direction; an activation light irradiation device which is configured to irradiate the inks deposited on the recording medium with the activation light; an irradiation region dividing device which is configured to divide a range irradiated with the activation light by the activation light irradiation device into a plurality of divided irradiation regions corresponding respectively to the divided nozzle regions; and a light quantity control device which is configured to control light quantities respectively for the divided irradiation regions divided by the irradiation region dividing device, wherein the activation light irradiation device includes: a first activation light irradiation device which is moved with the inkjet head by the scanning device and serves as a temporary curing device that is configured to irradiate the inks deposited on the recording medium with the activation light of such a level as to incompletely cure the inks; and aside from the first activation light irradiation device, a second activation light irradiation device which serves as a permanent curing device that is configured to irradiate the inks deposited on the recording medium with the activation light of such a level as to permanently cure the inks, wherein the light quantity control device is configured to control emission light amounts of the first activation light irradiation device respectively for the divided irradiation regions.