abstract |
There is provided an ink jet recording apparatus equipped with an ink for ink jet recording, and a discharge unit that discharges a liquid droplet of the ink onto a recording medium, wherein the ink contains at least a colorant, a polymer particle, a water-soluble organic solvent, and water, and has a dynamic surface tension after 1 msec of 32 mN/m or less, a dynamic surface tension after 1 sec of less than 30 mN/m, when the dynamic surface tension is measured by a maximum bubble pressure method, and has a variation width in the dynamic surface tension for the period from 1 msec after to 1 sec after of from 0.2 mN/m to 3.0 mN/m, a recording speed is from 10 m/min to 50 m/min. |