Patent ID: 8328321

Claim:
An image recording apparatus comprising: an image recording drum that suctions and holds a paper on an outer circumferential surface thereof in state of an image recording surface of the paper facing outward, and rotates at a constant speed so as to convey the paper; an image recording drum temperature adjustment device which adjusts temperature of the image recording drum; a cooling device which spouts out cooling air from a constant position towards the outer circumferential surface of the image recording drum in such a manner that the cooling air is blown onto the image recording surface of the paper conveyed by the image recording drum so as to cool the paper; and an image recording device which deposits ink onto the image recording surface of the paper conveyed by the image recording drum to record an image on the image recording surface, the image recording device being situated in a stage after the cooling device and depositing the ink onto the paper having been cooled to record the image.