Patent 7533982 was granted and assigned to Konica Minolta on May, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An image recording apparatus which performs color image recording, including:a color ink recording head which jets photo-curable color ink droplets onto a recording medium;a transparent ink recording head which jets photo-curable transparent ink droplets onto a recording medium; anda light radiating device for radiating light rays onto the color ink droplets and transparent ink droplets, on the recording medium;a control section for judging the amount of color ink droplets to be jetted, and for controlling the amount of transparent ink droplets to be jetted, based on the determined amount.