Patent ID: 6958763

Claim:
An image recording device comprising: a recording head having light sources of plural channels arranged rectilinearly, and able to simultaneously illuminate light beams from the respective channels on the basis of input image data, and able to main scan and subscan the light beams onto a recording material in order to record an image; a line memory storing the input image data, with image data based on a number of main scan lines of one main scan by the recording head being one unit; a buffer storing, for each of the respective channels, the input image data stored in the line memory; a transfer control device shifting, in a main scanning direction, image data read out from the line memory and transferring the image data to the buffer, on the basis of pixel offset amounts in the main scanning direction between the respective main scan lines; and an image data reshuffling control device reshuffling, in units of channels and on the basis of an order of the respective channels of the recording head, image data to be transferred to the buffer from the line memory.