| abstract |
There is described inkjet recording method and apparatus capable of printing very fine images stably on every type of printing material. The apparatus includes an ink-heating section to heat ink; an ink-jetting head having an ink channel, a volume of which is expanded and shrunken by applying a first electronic pulse and by successively applying a second electronic pulse, to emit an ink particle from a nozzle of the ink channel onto a recording medium so as to form the image on the recording medium; and an ultraviolet light irradiating section to irradiate ultraviolet light onto the recording medium for fixing the image; wherein, at a time after the ink particle is emitted by applying a first driving pulse to the ink channel and before an ink meniscus, formed at the nozzle, grows to an original stable state, a next ink particle is emitted by applying a second driving pulse. |