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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2004
Filed:
May. 07, 2002
Mitsuru Koike, Minami-Ashigara, JP;
Yoshio Ishii, Minami-Ashigara, JP;
Makoto Yamada, Minami-Ashigara, JP;
Eiichi Kito, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
An image recording apparatus records an image by adhering ink droplets ejected from a recording head to a long recording material. A solvent in the ink droplets is removed by a heating and drying section, and a transparent sheet material is laminated onto an image recording surface of the recording material by a laminating section. Subsequently, the recording material is cut into pieces by a first cutter along boundaries of recorded images, which boundaries extend in a transverse direction of the recording material. A piece having images recorded thereon is transferred to a conveyance belt, conveyed, cut for each of the images by a second cutter, and accumulated in a print accumulating section via a conveyance belt. A piece having a single image recorded thereon is conveyed on another conveyance belt and accumulated in the print accumulating section. Thus, processing time per image can be reduced.