Patent ID: 8231194

Claim:
An inkjet recording method for utilizing a recording head having a pressure chamber and a pressure generation device to change a volume of the pressure chamber, and ejecting an ink in the pressure chamber as an ink droplet from a nozzle by driving the pressure generation device, the method comprising: applying, to the pressure generation device, an ejection pulse including a first pulse for expanding a volume of the pressure chamber and then contracting the volume, and applying a second pulse after an interval of 1AL time period from the first pulse, for contracting the volume of the pressure chamber and then expanding the volume; and applying, to the pressure generation device, a preliminary pulse immediately before the first pulse without an interval between the preliminary pulse and the first pulse, for contracting the volume of the pressure chamber and then expanding the volume, wherein the preliminary pulse is a rectangular wave having a pulse width of 2 AL or greater, where AL is ½ of an acoustic resonance cycle period of a pressure wave in the pressure chamber.