Patent ID: 8814290

Claim:
An image recording device comprising: a support member configured and arranged to support a recording medium conveyed along a conveyance path; a recording head configured and arranged to eject a liquid on the recording medium while stopped above the support member to record an image; a surface modifying apparatus configured and arranged to receive a processing execution signal and to execute surface modification processing to modify a surface of the recording medium at a processing position disposed on an upstream side of the support member with respect to the conveyance path; a conveyor unit configured and arranged to intermittently convey the recording medium from an upstream side of the conveyance path to the support member, and to intermittently pass the recording medium through the processing position at a prescribed passage velocity by feeding the recording medium from the upstream side of the conveyance path to the processing position; and a control unit capable of providing a processing execution signal to the surface modifying apparatus, the control unit being configured to provide the processing execution signal to the surface modifying apparatus for a prescribed time within a wait time from when passage of the recording medium through the processing position stops until the recording medium starts passing through the processing position at the prescribed passage velocity.