To provide a small-sized and inexpensive recording head capable of effectively preventing malfunction of a driver IC to be caused by surge voltage.

The recording head is equipped with a large number of recording elements 2 arranged linearly and divided into (N) blocks (N; natural number of 2 or more) and (N) drivers ICs 6a-6d provided corresponding to (N) blocks in a ratio of 1:1 and driving the recording elements of the corresponding blocks during the supply of a strobe signal, the driving timings of the recording elements by the driver ICs 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d are shifted by 0.01-50.00 μsec and delay means 11a, 11b, 11c delaying the input timing of the strobe signal are provided to the front stages of at least the driver ICs 6b, 6c, 6d driven on and after the second driver IC so that the drive periods of the driver ICs 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d are overlapped with each other.