Patent ID: 8672467

Claim:
An inkjet recording apparatus comprising: a conveyance unit that conveys a recording medium; inkjet recording heads that jet ink droplets onto a recording medium surface while scanning in a recording direction that intersects a conveyance direction of the recording medium; a first image converter that converts image data, which have been inputted, into ink data based on the color of ink; a second image converter that converts the ink data into dot data on the basis of which each inkjet recording head jets the ink droplets; a drying unit that is disposed on a conveyance direction downstream side of the inkjet recording heads and dries the ink droplets on the recording medium while moving in a drying direction that differs from the conveyance direction; and a drying unit movement controller that decides a moving speed of the drying unit, the drying unit movement controller controlling the moving speed of the drying unit on the basis of at least one of the inputted image data, the ink data, or the dot data, wherein the drying unit movement controller is configured to control the movement of the drying unit independently from the movement of the inkjet recording heads.