Patent ID: 8277009

Claim:
An image recording device comprising: a feeder configured to feed a recording medium in a predetermined direction; a recorder comprising a plurality of dot forming elements aligned in the predetermined direction at intervals of a predetermined pitch, the recorder being configured to record images by forming dots, with the dot forming elements, at intervals of a distance shorter than the predetermined pitch in the predetermined direction on the recording medium fed by the feeder; a first identifying unit configured to identify, as an image group, at least one image to be recorded between blank areas in the predetermined direction; a determining unit configured to determine whether a first whole length of the image group identified by the first identifying unit in the predetermined direction is equal to or less than a second whole length of the dot forming elements in the predetermined direction; a first controller configured to, when the determining unit determines that the first whole length is not equal to or less than the second whole length, repeat a first feed control and a first record control so as to record the image group, the first controller controlling, in the first feed control, the feeder to feed the recording medium by a first feed distance more than the predetermined pitch, the first controller controlling, in the first record control, the recorder to record a part of the image group with dot forming elements selected such that any adjacent two dots of the image group in the predetermined direction are recorded with respective different dot forming elements; and a second controller configured to, when the determining unit determines that the first whole length is equal to or less than the second whole length, repeat a second feed control and a second record control so as to record the image group, the second controller controlling, in the second feed control, the feeder to feed the recording medium by a second feed distance equal to or less than the predetermined pitch, the second controller controlling, in the second record control, the recorder to record a part of the image group such that any adjacent two dots of the image group in the predetermined direction are permitted to be recorded with an identical dot forming element.