Patent ID: 7922286

Claim:
An image recording apparatus, comprising: a drum for holding a recording medium by winding the recording medium such that the recording medium tightly contacts a surface of a cylinder of the drum, and for conveying the recording medium; a recording medium conveying mechanism; a recording head for recording an image on the being-conveyed recording medium, wherein the recording head is arranged in a direction orthogonal to a conveying direction of the recording medium; a faulty record detection unit for detecting a faulty record of the image recorded by the recording head; and a control unit for controlling the drum, the recording head, and the faulty record detection unit, wherein both the recording head and the faulty record detection unit are fixed to a same coupling member such that: (i) both the recording head and the faulty record detection unit are arranged opposite to a winding portion of the drum where the recording medium is windingly held tightly contacting the surface of the cylinder of the drum, and (ii) the faulty record detection unit is arranged more downstream in the conveying direction than the recording head, and wherein the coupling member is fixed to a fixing member that holds a rotation shaft of the drum.