Patent ID: 7290873

Claim:
An ink jet recording method comprising: recording images with an ink including a pigment on a recording medium, wherein the ink is cured when irradiated with at least one of ultraviolet ray and electron beam, a layer thickness dependence rate per 1 μm of the ink is less than 0.043, when the ink layer thickness at the center and end of the image are 30 μm and 15 μm respectively, a layer thickness dependence rate is less than 0.043 or ΔEab* between same hues is 8 or less, the layer thickness dependence rate is defined by following equation (1): Δ D =( OD h −OD l )/( t h −t l ) (1) where OD h is the optical density of the end of the recorded area, OD l is the center of the recorded area, t h is the thickness of ink layer at the end of the recorded area, t l is the thickness of ink layer at the center of the recorded area.