Ink jet recording process and ink jet recording apparatus

Abstract

The invention relates to an ink jet recording process comprising an ink jet recording step of discharging one or more kinds of inks based on entered image information to record an image of one or more colors on a recording medium, and an overcoat step of forming a protective layer for covering the image on the recording medium, wherein control tables corresponding to changes in characteristics of the color(s) which occur by covering the color(s) output onto the recording medium with the protective layer are prepared beforehand, and in the ink jet recording step, discharge control of the ink(s) is performed in accordance with the control tables to record the image, thereby making it possible to faithfully reproduce the entered image information. Also disclosed is an ink jet recording apparatus suitable for the ink jet recording process.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.