1 a second embodiment of the invention fig4 will now be explained the image recording apparatus of the second embodiment has almost the same structure as the image recording apparatus of the first embodiment except for the control electrode 24 which has different structure than that of the image recording apparatus of the first embodiment the control electrode 24 comprises an insulative layer 26 a plurality of reference electrodes 27 a plurality of independent electrodes 28 and a plurality of apertures 25 in the control electrode 24 a reference electrode 27 is independently provided around each of the apertures 25 in the same way as the independent electrodes 28 further as shown in fig6 a 6b a voltage of 250 v or 200 v is applied to each of the reference electrodes 27 and the independent electrodes 28 according to the output from the associated signal sources s that is either 250 v or 200 v is reciprocally applied to the reference electrode 27 and the independent electrode 28 of each pair through the relay circuit 40 associated with each paired reference electrode 27 and independent electrode 28 arrows in the respective figures show the direction of the electric field and coulomb.