To provide an apparatus and a method for recording an image which are constituted to enhance an adhesion of a recording medium to a rotary drum for recording and to limit image defects due to foreign matter to a minimum without volatilizing a lubricant from a bearing of the rotary drum for recording.

In the image-recording apparatus, the recording medium is sucked and fixed to a rotary drum 34 for recording, and exposed to a laser light controlled corresponding to character/image data, whereby characters/ imaged, etc., are recorded to the recording medium. The apparatus has a vacuum pump for sucking and fixing the recording medium to a surface of the rotary drum 34 fir recording. A rolling bearing 100 at least partially formed of a ceramics material is set to a rotational supporting part 34a of the rotary drum 34 for recording.