PURPOSE: To provide a high quality ink jet recording by a method wherein both the printing head and the cleaning means are integrally provided and a sheet paper is cleaned just before printing operation is performed.

CONSTITUTION: Ink jet nozzle head 1 is mounted and at least one of the carriages 2 which may be moved at a high speed in a leftward or rightward direction is arranged such that for example a brushlike cleaning means 8 may be contacted with a sheet paper, some paper powders are scraped off when the carriages are moved to protect a nozzle opening and at the same time the printing paper 6 is corrected not to be bent at its front surface.