Patent ID: 7770992
Filing Date: 2010-08-10
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. An image recording apparatus which records an image, based on predetermined electronic data stored in an electronic-data storage medium, by jetting an ink onto a recording medium from nozzles, the apparatus comprising: a recording head which has a nozzle surface having the nozzles formed therein, and which records the image based on a recording command by jetting the ink from the nozzles onto the recording medium; an external input terminal to which the electronic-data storage medium can be attached; a recovery mechanism which performs a recovery operation for recovering a jetting state of the nozzles; a timer which measures an elapsed time elapsed after the recovery mechanism has performed the recovery operation; a detecting mechanism which detects whether or not the electronic-data storage medium has been attached to the external input terminal; and a controller which controls the recovery mechanism to perform the recovery operation when the detecting mechanism detects that the electronic-data storage medium is attached to the external input terminal and when the elapsed time measured by the timer exceeds a predetermined time; wherein the controller controls the recovery mechanism to change a degree of the recovery operation depending on a length of the elapsed time measured by the timer.