Recording apparatus and method compensating for varying gap between recording head and recording medium

A recording method for performing recording on a recording medium with a recording portion including a recording head having a plurality of recording elements, said method comprising the steps of:

• acquiring a first distance between the recording medium and an upper positioned recording element, and a second distance between the recording medium and a lower positioned recording element;
• establishing a correction value for ink ejection timing of said recording head on the basis of the difference between the first distance and the second distance acquired in said acquiring step;
• and
• controlling said recording portion to record on the basis of the correction value for ink ejection timing established in said establishing step.

A recording apparatus for recording information with a recording head having a plurality of recording elements while keeping a designated distance between said recording head and a recording medium, said apparatus comprising:

• information acquisition means for acquiring distance information between said plurality of recording elements and said recording medium;
• correction means for providing a correction value for a recording timing for each recording element of said plurality of recording elements of said recording head in accordance with said distance information acquired by said information acquisition means;
• and
• control means for controlling said recording head to record at a timing corrected with said correction value provided by said correction means, wherein said correction means corrects said recording timing based on a correction value obtained from a correction table by specifying a print duty up to a previous line, a print duty up to a current recording line, information on an order of repeated path, and a lapse of time after a previous path in said correction table.