Patent ID: 8764150

Claim:
An ink jet recording method that discharges ink from a nozzle of an ink jet recording head and records an image to a recording medium, the method comprising: a first image recording step of recording an image by discharging a background ink containing a background color material such that it adheres to a first region and a second region of the recording medium; a second image recording step of recording an image by discharging a color ink containing a color material other than the background color material such that it adheres onto the background ink of the first region; and a heating step of heating the recording medium at 35° C. to 100° C., wherein at least one of the following (A) and (B) is satisfied where (A) the second image recording step is a step that records the image by discharging a resin ink, which contains a resin and does not substantially contain the color material, and the color ink at substantially the same time such that they adhere onto the background ink of the first region, and (B) the ink jet recording method further comprises a third image recording step of recording an image by discharging the resin ink such that it adheres onto the color ink of the first region, and wherein at least one of the background ink and the color ink does not substantially contain a pyrrolidone derivative with a standard boiling point of 240° C. or higher.