Patent ID: 9221279
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. An image recording apparatus comprising: an image recording unit that records an image on a medium by using an ink containing a wax component; an ink drying unit that heats the surface of the image on the medium on which the image has been recorded by the image recording unit, and dries the ink; a varnish application unit that applies an active ray-curing type of varnish onto the surface of the image on the medium on which the ink has been dried by the ink drying unit; a varnish curing unit that irradiates the surface of the image on the medium on which the varnish has been applied by the varnish application unit, with active rays, and thereby cures the varnish; a heating unit before a curing of the varnish, which heats the surface of the image on the medium, before the varnish that has been applied onto the surface of the image on the medium by the varnish application unit is cured by the varnish curing unit; a unit of acquiring information on attained temperature when the ink has been dried, which acquires the information on the attained temperature T a melting point information acquiring unit which acquires information on a melting point TW of the wax component; and a control unit of heating before the curing of the varnish, which compares the attained temperature T