Patent ID: 7081914
Filing Date: 2006-07-25
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image recorder comprising: a cylindrical recording drum for mounting at least one image recording material on a surface thereof; a rotation mechanism for rotating said recording drum in a predetermined direction of rotation; a first recording head for recording an image on said at least one image recording material mounted on said recording drum; and a plurality of positioning pins disposed fixedly to protrude through said surface for positioning said at least one image recording material with respect to said recording drum, wherein said plurality of positioning pins include: a first pin-alignment having a pair of first pins, disposed almost in parallel to the axis of said recording drum; and at least one second pin-alignment each having at least one pair of second pins, disposed almost in parallel to the axis of said recording drum, wherein said first pin-alignment is offset backwardly with respect to said at least one second pin-alignment in a direction of insertion of said at least one image recording material, wherein said at least one image recording material includes one image recording material, said image recorder selectively executes positioning of a small-size single-mounting image recording material and a large-size single-mounting image recording material with only said pair of first pins of said plurality of positioning pins brought into contact with a leading edge of said at least one image recording material, and when said at least one image recording material includes two image recording materials, said image recorder executes positioning of said two image recording materials such that said two image recording materials are both mounted on said surface.