Patent ID: 8579286

Claim:
An image recording device that records images on a front surface and a reverse surface of a recording medium, the image recording device comprising: recording medium holding means that holds the recording medium; a movement mechanism that moves the recording medium holding means; a recording medium attachment part that attaches the recording medium to the recording medium holding means that is moved by driving by the movement mechanism; a recording medium supply part that supplies the recording medium not recorded with an image to the recording medium attachment part; a recording head that records an image on the recording medium that is attached to the recording medium holding means by the recording medium attachment part and held by the recording medium holding means; a detection part that detects a size of the recording medium of which the front surface is recorded with the image by the recording head; an inversion part that inverts, on a basis of a switch back method, the recording medium of which the front surface is recorded with the image by the recording head, such that a front end of the recording medium serves as a back end; a recording medium transport mechanism that transports the recording medium inverted by the inversion part to the recording medium attachment part; a control part that adjusts, on a basis of the size of the recording medium, the size being detected by the detection part, an image recording position on the reverse surface of the recording medium by the recording head; and a recording medium discharge part that discharges the recording medium of which the front surface and the reverse surface are recorded with the images by the recording head.