Patent ID: 7722158

Claim:
An ink-jet recording apparatus comprising: a conveyance section which conveys a recording medium in a conveyance direction; a plurality of recording heads aligned along the conveyance direction of the recording medium, each of the recording heads ejects the same type of photo-curing ink onto the recording medium and each of the recording heads comprising a plurality of nozzles aligned in a nozzle array, each of the nozzles forms an image element on the recording medium, each nozzle in each of the plurality of nozzles in each of the recording heads is aligned, in the conveyance direction, with an immediate downstream nozzle in an immediate downstream recording head; a plurality of light irradiating sections aligned along the conveyance direction of the recording medium, each of the irradiating sections provided immediately downstream of a respective one of each of the plurality of recording heads and irradiates light onto the recording medium to which the photo-curing type ink has been ejected by the respective one of each of the plurality of recording heads; and a control section controls the recording heads such that, for the image element formed on the recording medium at a first position in the conveyance direction, a recording head that is positioned downstream, in a conveyance direction, to a previous recording head ejects ink at positions shifted in a direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction by one image element from the positions of the ink ejected from the previous recording head.