Jet recording method

A jet recording method, comprising the steps of:

• placing a recording material in a liquid state within a plurality of nozzles;
• heating the recording material to generate a bubble within the recording material in each nozzle by application from a bubble-generating heater of bubble-generating heat energy corresponding to a given recording signal, thereby ejecting a droplet of the recording material out of the nozzle onto a recording medium;
• and
• applying to the recording material, a plurality of preheating pulses of equal height providing preheating energy from the bubble-generating heater, the preheating energy having an energy density per unit time which decreases with time until application of the bubble-generating heat energy, the decrease in the energy density per unit time corresponding to a decrease in pulse width or number of pulses per unit time of the preheating pulses,
• wherein the preheating energy is provided to the recording material so as not to cause a substantial change in volume of droplets ejected out of each nozzle but to stabilize a bubble-through mode jet recording such that each bubble generated in said bubble generating heating step is caused to communicate with ambience, thereby ejecting each droplet of the recording material in a substantially constant volume and along a substantially constant ejection path.