Patent ID: 7324237

Claim:
An image recording apparatus comprising: an image recording unit which records an image on an image recording material; a transporting unit which transports said image recording material whose shape has at a least one side in a predetermined transporting direction; a position detecting unit for said image recording material which detects a position of said image recording material in said at least one side along said predetermined transporting direction; a reference storage unit storing a corresponding relationship between the position detecting unit and the image recording unit; and an image recording position correcting unit which allows said image recording unit to correct an image recording position for said image recording material by referencing the corresponding relationship stored in the reference storage unit and based on result of detection of said position of said image recording material in said at least one side by said position detecting unit so that said image can be recorded correctly at a position to be recorded on said image recording material transported as it is by said transporting unit without correcting said detected position of said image recording material; wherein a desired image is recorded on said image recording material at the corrected image recording position by said image recording unit.