Patent ID: 7753516

Claim:
An inkjet recording apparatus, comprising: a drum rotor that rotates while holding a recording medium on a circumferential surface thereof; a head unit that is disposed facing the circumferential surface of the drum rotor and movable relatively to the drum rotor along an axis direction of the drum rotor, and is provided with an image recording head that jets real image recording ink and a background recording head that jets background recording ink onto the recording medium; a light irradiating device for curing ink on the recording medium, wherein the light irradiating device is disposed facing the circumferential surface of the drum rotor and in alignment with the head unit along a rotation direction of the drum rotor; and a control device that controls the drum rotor to rotate, the head unit to move along the axis direction of the drum rotor while jetting real image recording ink from the image recording head and background recording ink from the background recording head, and the light irradiating device to irradiate light, wherein the control unit performs control such that, during a time after one of the image recording head and the background recording head has performed recording and before the other one of the recording heads performs recording, the light irradiating device irradiates light onto ink of the record generated by the one of the heads.