Patent attributes
An inkjet recording apparatus includes an image recording head for jetting image recording ink onto a recording medium conveyed in a sub scanning direction, while the recording head reciprocally moving in the main scanning direction, the image recording head having an image recording nozzle array including a plurality of nozzles; an auxiliary recording head for jetting auxiliary recording ink for enhancing image recording, the auxiliary recording head having an auxiliary recording nozzle array including a plurality of nozzles, the auxiliary recording nozzle array being disposed along the sub scanning direction in parallel to the image recording nozzle array; and a control section for controlling the image recording nozzle array and the auxiliary recording nozzle array so as to change respective ink jetting areas by selecting nozzles, for respectively jetting ink, from the image recording nozzle array and the auxiliary recording nozzle array, according to a recording mode.
