Patent ID: 8056998

Claim:
An image-forming apparatus comprising: (a) a recording head operable to eject ink droplets for forming an image on a recording medium, (b) a movable body on which the recording head is mounted, (c) a driving device operable to reciprocate the movable body in a main scanning direction, (d) a medium feeding device operable to feed the recording medium in a secondary scanning direction intersecting the main scanning direction, and (e) a control device operable to control said recording head, said driving device and said medium feeding device, to perform a recording operation to form the image on the recording medium, the recording operation including a non-margin recording operation in which the image is formed with said ink droplets on the recording medium, without a margin left along an edge of the recording medium, wherein said control device includes a speed control portion which is operable in said non-margin recording operation, to control said driving device such that after said movable body is moved in one of opposite directions parallel to said main scanning direction while the non-margin recording operation is performed by the recording head, said movable body is moved in the other of said opposite directions at a lower speed which is lower than that of the movement of the movable body in said one of the opposite directions, and wherein said speed control portion controls said recording head, said driving device and said medium feeding device such that said non-margin recording operation is performed without a to margin left along a leading edge of the recording medium and such that said movable body is moved in said other of the opposite directions at said lower speed in said one of the opposite directions, while the non-margin recording operation is performed in a leading end portion of the recording medium which has a predetermined special control length from said leading edge in said secondary scanning direction.