Image recording apparatus and base material supply apparatus

摘要

An image recording apparatus (1) includes an unwinder (21), a recorder (3), a take-up part (41), a first supporter (22), a surface modifying part (23), and a second supporter (24). The unwinder unwinds a base material (BM1, BM11, BM12) from a roll (RL1). The recorder records an image onto a surface of the base material. The take-up part takes up the base material on which an image has been recorded by the recorder. The first supporter supports the base material that is being conveyed in a direction away from the recorder after having been unwound from the unwinder. The surface modifying part modifies a surface of the base material by energizing the surface of the base material that has passed through the first supporter. The second supporter supports the base material that is being conveyed in a direction toward the recorder after having passed through the surface modifying part. The second supporter is more distant from the unwinder than the first supporter is. The unwinder is disposed on at least one of a virtual line segment that connects the surface modifying part and the recorder and a normal to the line segment.