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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2019
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Ippei Okuda, Shiojiri, JP;
Kimitaka Kamijo, Shiojiri, JP;
Abstract
An ink jet recording method includes a white ink adhesion step of causing a white ink containing a white pigment to adhere to a recording medium by an ink jet method; a non-white ink adhesion step of causing a non-white ink containing a non-white coloring material to adhere to the recording medium by the ink jet method; and a drying step of drying the white ink and the non-white ink adhering to the recording medium in the white ink adhesion step and the non-white ink adhesion step by a blowing type or radiation type drying unit, in which the white ink adhesion step and the non-white ink adhesion step are performed in a state where the recording medium is supported on a support member including a suction hole sucking the recording medium, and are performed by plural times of main scanning in which a recording head discharging the white ink and a recording head discharging the non-white ink discharge each ink while moving in a main scanning direction and plural times of sub-scanning in which the recording medium moves in a sub-scanning direction intersecting the main scanning direction.