Patent ID: 7651195

Claim:
A color inkjet recording apparatus comprising: a multi-nozzle inkjet recording head which ejects a process liquid to a recording medium before ink ejection, for preventing ink from spreading more than required on said recording medium; a printing area to cover a printing width of a recording medium with thousands to tens of thousands of nozzles arranged with densities of 400 to 2400 dpi and a plurality of multi-nozzle inkjet recording heads of the printing area eject ink on demand at frequencies of a few to 30 kHz per nozzle, the multi-nozzle inkjet recording heads being arranged and fixed so as to eject a plurality of color inks supplied from a plurality of independent ink containers provided at the lower place than said multi-nozzle inkjet recording heads; a separation part separating the color inkjet recording apparatus into a first region in which said independent ink containers are provided and a second region in which the rest of the color inkjet recording apparatus is provided; and a holding part configured to hold the ink containers, the holding part including a plurality of separation parts, wherein the recording medium includes a surface on which recording is performed and has the recording surface coated with particulate matter, the recording is performed by conveying the recording medium to a position that opposes surfaces of said multi-nozzle inkjet recording heads, said surfaces including the nozzles and ejecting ink droplets from the nozzles onto the recording surface of the recording medium, the independent ink containers contain the respective color inks, and the holding part holds the independent ink containers so that die independent ink containers are separated from each other.