Patent ID: 6873349
Filing Date: 2005-03-29
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. An image-recording device which irradiates a light beam from a recording head on the basis of input image data while moving a recording material and the recording head simultaneously relatively in a main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction, and records an image on the recording material, the image-recording device comprising: a positioning section which, for a predetermined resolution and a predetermined number of channels of the light beam irradiated from the recording head simultaneously, preparatorily inclines and positions the recording material in correspondence with an angle which cancels out an inclination angle between a peripheral end of the recording material and a peripheral end of an image region, the inclination angle being caused by the simultaneous progress in the main scanning direction and the sub-scanning direction; and an image data shift section which, at a time of image recording under conditions in which at least one of a resolution and a number of channels differs from the predetermined resolution and the predetermined number of channels for which the positioning section has carried out positioning, shifts the input image data in the sub-scanning direction on the basis of the difference of the at least one of the resolution and the number of channels.