Patent ID: 7396103

Claim:
An inkjet recording apparatus, comprising: a carriage having a recording head for jetting UV-curable ink onto a recording medium and a UV light emitter for projecting UV light onto ink having landed on the recording medium to cure the ink; a maintenance unit for performing maintenance of the recording head; an input section for inputting a type of recording medium; a storage section for storing plural types of recording media and plural maintenance intervals, the maintenance intervals corresponding to the respective types of recording media; and a controller for controlling the maintenance unit such that the controller selects one of the maintenance intervals, corresponding to one type of the plural types of recording media, the one type having been input through the input section, and performs maintenance operation, according to the selected maintenance interval, wherein each maintenance interval is determined, according to an amount of light energy of UV light that is reflected by a corresponding one of the types of recording media and reaches a nozzle surface of the recording head.