Patent ID: 8553056

Claim:
An image recording apparatus performing image recording by irradiating laser light onto a heat-reactive recording medium wrapped around a drum, comprising: a recording head coupled to a plurality of laser emitters provided in a line and emitting laser light; a displacer displacing the recording head in a secondary scanning direction intersecting with a main scanning direction in which the recording medium is wrapped around the drum; and a recording controller controlling the emission of laser light from the recording head and displacement of the recording head by the displacer, wherein in response to a rotation of the drum, one cycle of scanning by the recording head in the main scanning direction of the recording medium is completed and each time, the recording controller displaces the recording head in the secondary scanning direction with a displacement amount smaller than a recording width in the secondary scanning direction according to laser light emitted from the plurality of laser emitters, wherein the plurality of laser emitters are arranged in a plurality of lines inclined with respect to the secondary scanning direction.