To provide an inkjet recording device which realizes circulation recovery of a recording head by a smaller waste ink amount.

In a first ink passage 117 and a second ink passage 118 which couple a sub tank 102 and the recording head 107 with each other, a pump 101 set at the first ink passage 117 is operated in a state with the second ink passage 118 shut, and ink in the sub tank 102 is supplied to the recording head 107 by the pressure of the pump 101. An ink liquid chamber and a passage in the recording head 107 are after pressured, whereby bubbles remaining in the ink liquid chamber and the like are made to flow from an ink discharge opening.