Patent ID: 7597416

Claim:
An ink-jet recording apparatus which performs recording by jetting a plurality of color inks including a deep-color ink and a light-color ink, the apparatus comprising: a recording head which has a plurality of nozzle rows arranged in a predetermined arrangement direction corresponding to the color inks, respectively, each of the nozzle arrays having a plurality of nozzles, and which applies pressures to the color inks to jet the inks from the nozzles; a plurality of ink storage chambers storing the color inks respectively; a plurality of ink supply ports through which the inks are supplied from the ink storage chambers to the nozzle rows, respectively; a driving circuit which drives the recording head; and a heat transfer plate which is in contact with the driving circuit in a heat-conductive manner and which is disposed adjacent to the ink storage chambers; wherein: an ink storage chamber, among the ink storage chambers, which stores the deep-color ink is disposed at a position, with respect to the driving circuit and the heat transfer plate, at which heat generated by the driving circuit and the heat transfer plate is transferred to the ink storage chamber to an extent smaller than to another ink storage chamber which stores the light-color ink; and a color ink, among the color inks, which is stored in an ink storage chamber among the ink storage chambers and heated most by the heat, is supplied to a nozzle row which is different from nozzle rows disposed outermostly in the nozzle rows.