INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD

A CPU converts multimedia information, which has been input from a multimedia information input unit, to an optically readable dot code, and prints the dot code on an information recording medium by means of a recording head. In this case, a control unit moves the recording head in a first direction of the information recording medium, and moves the information recording medium and recording head relative to each other in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. When the dot code, which is spatially independent, is to be recorded on the information recording medium, the CPU controls the control unit such that the dot code is recorded only by a single one-way scan operation of the recording head unit in the first direction, without moving the information recording medium and the recording head unit relative to each other in the second direction.