Patent ID: 7549740

Claim:
An image recording apparatus, comprising: a recording medium supporting section which supports a recording medium; a recording head which discharges a photo curable ink that is cured by photo irradiation; a light irradiating device which irradiates the photo irradiation to the photo curable ink on the recording medium, and includes a light source; and a protector which is provided between the recording medium supporting section and the light irradiating device at the time of an image recording operation, wherein the protector includes a partition element and a plurality of slits made by the partition element, wherein the image recording apparatus satisfies the following inequality, 0.7≦ A/B< 1.0 where A represents a first cumulative illumination intensity in case the first cumulative illumination intensity through the protector is measured on the recording medium supporting section, and B represents a second cumulative illumination intensity without the protector is measured on the recording medium supporting section.