Patent ID: 8746831
Filing Date: 2014-06-10
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. An image recording apparatus comprising: a tray configured to hold a disk; a conveying portion configured to convey said tray in a conveyance direction that is perpendicular to a main scanning direction; a recording portion configured to print an image onto the disk that is held by said tray; a detecting portion movable in the main scanning direction and configured to detect the disk and said tray; a detection-region determining portion configured to determine, based on the image printed in a recorded region of the disk, a detection region of the disk having at least a part of the image printed therein, the detection region being to be detected by said detecting portion, the detection region including at least a part of the recorded region; a detection-region memory portion configured to memorize a position of the detection region that has been determined by said detection-region determining portion; a controlling portion configured to cause, prior to a next printing of the image onto a disk that is held by said tray, moving said detecting portion to said detection region, by controlling said conveying portion and said detecting portion, based on the position of the detection region that has been memorized in said detection-region memory portion in previous printing of the image; and a judging portion configured to judge whether the image has been already printed onto the disk or not, based on a result of a detection of the at least a part of the image made by said detecting portion at said detection region.