IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming device and an image forming method which suppress deterioration of images.SOLUTION: In an image forming device, a sheet passes a plurality of times immediately below an ink jet head 40 in which nozzles discharging ink are lined up in a direction orthogonal to a carrying direction of the sheet so as to record an image. The image forming device includes: a paper feeding part storing sheets; a carrying part carrying the sheets from the paper feeding part; a position adjustment part moving the ink jet head 40 in the direction in which the nozzles are juxtaposed; and a control part performing control so that a second recording path out of a plurality of image recording paths in a direction orthogonal to the movement direction of the ink jet head by the position adjustment part, which performs recording after image recording by a first recording path is located at a position sandwiching the other recording path between the first recording path and the second recording path.