摘要 |
A carriage apparatus of an ink jet recording apparatus, discharges a photocurable ink, while moving with respect to a recording medium in main scan and sub scan directions. The carriage apparatus includes a first recording portion having recording heads for discharging a first ink to the recording medium. A first half curing unit irradiates and half cures the first ink. A second recording portion at a downstream side of a sub scan direction with respect to the first recording portion discharges the second ink to the recording medium and has fewer recording heads than the first recording portion. A second half curing unit irradiates the second ink with light to half cure the second ink. A main curing unit at the downstream side of the sub scan direction of the second recording portion irradiates the recording medium with light, thereby fully curing the half cured first and second inks.
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