Patent ID: 9573397
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: B41J

Claim:
1. An ink-jet recording apparatus configured to jet droplets of ink on a sheet, comprising: a conveyance unit configured to convey the sheet in a conveyance direction while nipping the sheet; a support part including ribs, which extend in the conveyance direction and are disposed at intervals in a width direction intersecting with the conveyance direction, and being configured to support the sheet conveyed in the conveyance direction; a recording head disposed to face the support part, including nozzles disposed to be aligned in the conveyance direction, and being configured to jet ink droplets from the nozzles to the support part, a carriage carrying the recording head and being configured to move in the width direction; a detecting unit configured to detect a position of the sheet conveyed; and a controller configured to control the conveyance unit to repeat conveyance of the sheet and stoppage of the conveyance of the sheet alternately and to control the recording head to perform recording in which ink droplets are jetted from the nozzles during movement of the carriage with the conveyance of the sheet being stopped, wherein, in a case that the sheet supported by the support part is in a position in which the sheet is nipped by the conveyance unit, the controller is configured to shift nozzles, from which ink droplets are jetted to a center area of an upper surface of the support part in the width direction, to an upstream or a downstream in the conveyance direction by a predetermined number relative to nozzles from which ink droplets are jetted to outer areas, of the upper surface of the support part, positioned outside the center area in the width direction.