Patent ID: 6876376

Claim:
An image recording method executed by a recording apparatus including a recording medium fixing member for fixing a recording medium formed by coupling together a toner layer of a transfer film as a heat mode sensitive material and an image receiving layer of a receiver film in a layering manner and having a plurality of spots arrayed on a surface thereof, and a recording head capable of irradiating for exposing the recording medium, the method comprising the steps of: recording for recording a desired image on the recording medium by the recording head exposing the recording medium along image/character data with letting the recording medium relatively move in a main scan direction between the recording medium fixing member and the recording head as well as letting the spots relatively move in a sub-scan direction; first exposing for exposing pixels on the recording medium in the sub-scan direction by relatively moving the recording head from a position near the original point of the sub-scan to a position near the end of the sub-scan; second exposing for exposing pixels in an unexposed area; and repeating the step of second exposing for exposing remaining pixels; wherein the main scan direction is a relative moving direction of recording medium and the recording head toward to a predetermined direction, wherein the sub-scan direction is orthogonal to the main scan direction, wherein the pixels in the step of first exposing, correspond to image/character data on the recording medium and are exposed by moving the recording head so that the pixels form island patterns, and wherein the island pattern includes a predetermined number of pixels consecutively arrayed on the recording medium in the main and sub-scan directions.