Appeal No. 1997-3959 Application No. 08/183,693 dismissed. Claims 1-44 have been canceled. Claims 52, 58-60, 63, 65, 66, 72, 73, 81, 83-87, 89, and 97-99 remain on appeal. The disclosed invention is directed to an inkjet recording apparatus. The conventional inkjet recording apparatus typically suffers from inferior recording quality due to bleeding and/or flowing of the ink, which often results in contamination of the recording apparatus. The present invention overcomes this problem by providing a heating element in each of the passages for heating the recording ink and the coating material. Other aspects of the invention include making the inkjet recording head with an integer multiple number of orifices of the coating head, and providing a gas supply device which supplies the gas to the coating material supply device to supply the coating material onto the recording medium as a fine mist. Further understanding of the invention can be had by the following claims. 45. An inkjet recording apparatus comprising: inkjet recording means for discharging recording ink according to a recording signal and for recording on a recording medium, the inkjet recording means comprising at least one first orifice for discharging the recording ink on the recording 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007