An ink jet recording apparatus for recording by discharging ink from nozzles
of
a recording head to a recording medium comprises a figure recording control section
for executing recording control of figure draw commands for ruled lines and other
figures, and a bitmap recording control section for executing recording control
of draw commands other than the figure draw commands by developing bitmaps. For
this ink jet recording apparatus, draw commands are individually controlled by
the recording control sections, respectively, and at the same time, recording is
performed by relatively moving in the intersecting two directions a recording head
for discharging ink by the draw commands, and a recording medium held by a recording
medium holding unit in the position facing the ink discharge surface of the recording
head. With the structure thus arranged, it becomes possible to materialize an ink
jet recording apparatus which can output high quality images while neither creating
deviating seams of ruled lines to the left or right nor creating black strips or
white strips.
