Patent ID: 7434926
Filing Date: 2008-10-14
Classification: G03B

Abstract:
1. An image recording method comprising: providing an image data; providing a glossiness data indicating glossiness of an image to be recorded according to the image data; a recording step of recording an image on an image recording layer of an image recording medium according to the image data; a material setting step of setting a coating film to be provided on said image recording layer, the setting being according to the glossiness data; a condition setting step of determining a condition of a surface processing of said coating film by considering said set coating film and according to said glossiness data; and a surface processing step of forming said coating film on the image recorded on the recording layer in accordance with said determined surface processing condition, wherein the surface processing in said processing step includes a heating a surface of said coating film and pressing a pressing member against a surface of said coating film, and wherein said condition setting step determines said surface processing condition according to a table using, as parameters, in addition to said glossiness data and said coating film, at least one of a heating temperature applied by said heating, a heating time of said heating, a pressing force applied by said pressing, a surface roughness of said pressing member, and a pressing time of said pressing.