Patent ID: 6883893

Claim:
An image recording apparatus which prints an image using a composite recording head formed by joining a plurality of recording heads, each having a plurality of nozzles to discharge ink so as to have an overlapping region in about the same direction as an arrangement direction of the nozzles, the image recording apparatus comprising: an input image storage section which stores whole image information input into the image recording apparatus; a temporary image storage section into which the image information for a recording width printable by each recording head in the image information stored in the input image storage section is transferred and temporarily stored; a test pattern reading section which reads a test pattern printed by the composite recording head; a position information calculation section which calculates position information including a transfer start address and a transfer destination address of each storage section and a width of the overlapping region for use in transferring the image information into the temporary image storage section from the input image storage section from information of the read test pattern; and a position information storage section which stores the position information calculated by the position information calculation section.