The object of the present invention is to provide an ink jet recording method where it is possible to obtain a printed material where the elution amount (migration) to the outside of the components in a cured ink composition is small and there is little character blurring, and a printed material. The ink jet recording method of the present invention includes a step of ejecting an ink composition which contains 3-methyl pentanediol diacrylate of 30 mass % or more with respect to the total ink composition from an ink jet head onto a support, and a step of irradiating active rays in an atmosphere where the oxygen partial pressure is 0.10 atm or less to cure the ink composition.