Recording apparatus having an ink mist evacuation system

Claim 1

A recording apparatus comprising: a head mounting section for mounting a full-line type ink jet recording head having an array of ink discharge ports for discharging ink therethrough, said ink jet recording head for recording on an entire width of a recording medium, which is substantially perpendicular to a conveying direction of the recording medium, said array of discharge ports being disposed along the entire width of the recording medium; a first opening section disposed remote from said ink jet recording head in a direction substantially perpendicular to said array of ink discharge ports, said first opening section for introducing air into said recording apparatus; a second opening section disposed in the vicinity of said ink jet recording head, at an exhausting area for exhausting the recording medium from said recording apparatus, and substantially parallel to an alignment direction of said array of ink discharge ports, said second opening section exhausting the air introduced from said first opening section into said recording apparatus to outside of said recording apparatus and including an opening having a length corresponding to a length of said array of ink discharge ports; and blower means for introducing the air into said recording apparatus and forming an air flow in said recording apparatus so that the air is exhausted out of said recording apparatus through said second opening section, said blower means supplying the air from the direction substantially perpendicular to said array of ink discharge ports, wherein a distance between said first opening section and said ink jet recording head and a distance between said blower means and said ink jet recording head are each larger than a distance between said second opening section and said ink jet recording head.