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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2003
Toshiyuki Takabayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Masumi, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiyuki Takabayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Masumi, Tokyo, JP;
Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided an image recording device which is compact, high in image recording efficiency, low in power consumption, and capable of recording a good image even on a recording medium made of a heat shrinkable material. In an image recording devicewhich records an image on a recording mediumby irradiating it with ultraviolet rays by an ultraviolet-ray irradiation deviceto cure an ink, an ultraviolet light source comprises a light emitting diode which generates ultraviolet rays having an emission wavelength peak in a range between 305 and 375 nm and a maximum illuminance in a range between 40 and 1000 mW/cmon a surface of the recording medium.