Image recording apparatus and image recording method
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsKazuyuki Uetake, Yoshihiko Hotta, Ichiro Sawamura, Tomomi Ishimi, Yasuroh Yokota
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AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsKazuyuki Uetake, Yoshihiko Hotta, Ichiro Sawamura, Tomomi Ishimi, Yasuroh Yokota
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An image recording apparatus includes: a laser emitting device configured to emit laser beams emitted from a plurality of laser light-emitting elements; an optical fiber array including a plurality of optical fibers provided corresponding to the laser light-emitting elements and configured to guide the laser beams emitted from the laser light-emitting elements to a recording object that relatively moves with respect to the laser emitting device, laser emitting portions of the respective optical fibers being arrayed in an array form in a predetermined direction; and an image recording unit configured to control the laser emitting device so as to irradiate the recording object which relatively moves with respect to the laser emitting device in a direction different from the predetermined direction, with laser beams via the optical fiber array, to heat the recording object and record an image.
An image recording apparatus, comprising:
An image recording method in an image recording apparatus including a laser emitting device configured to emit laser beams emitted from a plurality of laser light emitters, and an optical fiber array including a plurality of optical fibers provided corresponding to the plurality of laser light emitters, the plurality of optical fibers configured to guide the laser beams emitted from the plurality of laser light emitters to a recording object that relatively moves with respect to the laser emitting device, and laser emitting portions of respective optical fibers of the plurality of optical fibers are arrayed in an array formed in a predetermined direction, the image recording method comprising:
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