Fabric inspection device and ink-jet printing device therewith

A fabric inspection device comprising:

• a sheet conveying portion that conveys a continuous recording sheet;
• an image reading portion that reads a plurality of images of a same pattern recorded repeatedly with a predetermined pitch on the recording sheet conveyed by the sheet conveying portion;
• a timing control portion that regulates timing with which the image reading portion reads images;
• a storage portion that stores the plurality of images read by the image reading portion as image data;
• a comparing control portion that takes, out of the plurality of images stored in the storage portion, part of an image continuously recorded on the recording sheet corresponding to a forefront one pitch as a reference image, the comparing control portion comparing with the image data of the reference image, the image data of a comparison image having the same pattern as the reference image and recorded on the recoding sheet later than the reference image, thereby to check for image defects;
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• a display portion that displays a result of checking by the comparing control portion.