Patent ID: 8482822

Claim:
An image recording apparatus, comprising: a recording head which has a plurality of recording elements; a conveyance device which conveys at least one of the recording head and a recording medium to cause relative movement between the recording head and the recording medium; an input device which inputs image data; an image processing device which causes a plurality of subsidiary image processing devices to perform a plurality of subsidiary image processes with respect to the input image data so as to generate output data; an image recording device which causes the recording head to perform recording on the recording medium according to the generated output data; a selection device which selects a subsidiary image processing device from the plurality of subsidiary image processing devices; and a control device which controls the selection device in accordance with the input image data, and wherein the image processing device does not reflect, in the output data, a processing result by the selected subsidiary image processing device, and reflects, in the output data, a processing result by the one or more subsidiary image processing devices which are different from the selected subsidiary image processing device.