Patent ID: 7922318

Claim:
An inkjet recording apparatus, comprising: a recording head having a plurality of nozzles that jet ink onto a recording medium, wherein the ink is cured by irradiating active energy ray thereon and/or applying thermal energy thereto; an ink curing device for curing the ink jetted onto the recording medium, having an active energy ray irradiating unit and/or thermal energy applying unit; and a controller that performs image recording by repeating a recording process for plural times to form a single band in which process the recording head jets ink onto the recording medium and then the active energy ray irradiation and/or thermal energy application is performed, wherein, for each said single band, the controller controls the active energy ray irradiating unit and/or thermal energy applying unit such as to decrease or increase, depending on a type of the recording medium, throughout a last recording process of the repeated times of the recording process, from a first recording process of the repeated times of the recording process, at least one of operating parameters which are an active energy ray irradiation amount, active energy ray irradiation duration, and thermal energy application amount.