Patent ID: 7309123
Filing Date: 2007-12-18
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A recording apparatus comprising: feeding means for feeding a medium to a downstream side of a transfer path; a recording head, provided in the downstream of said feeding means, operable to perform recording for said medium; a carriage, on which said recording head is mounted, operable to reciprocate in a main scanning direction along a carriage guide axis; a transfer roller operable to transfer said of medium by rotating, said transfer roller including a transfer-driving roller and a transfer-driven roller; a stacker having a medium-placed surface, said stacker being positioned at a first position allowing said medium to be substantially horizontally fed from said medium-placed surface to a position under said recording head and be substantially horizontally discharged from said first position under said recording head onto said medium-placed surface, or a second position operable to receive and stack said medium fed by the feeding means, said second position being on a lower level than said first position, said medium-placed surface being arranged substantially horizontally when said stacker is positioned at said first position and is arranged at an angle when said stacker is positioned at said second position; and first link means for displacing said stacker to cause said carriage guide axis to displace, wherein said carriage guide axis is arranged to be displaced upward when said stacker is positioned at said first position, and is prevented from moving downward as long as said stacker is positioned at said first position.