Patent ID: 7971952
Filing Date: 2011-07-05
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. An image recording apparatus for executing a recording process on at least one of a recording medium fed from a feeding unit and a recording medium on which the recording process has been executed and which is re-fed by reversing the recording medium for a both-side recording process at least via a path switching unit after the recording process, the image recording apparatus comprising: a driving control unit which determines a page gap to be formed between a preceding and a succeeding recording medium on a conveyance path with respect to at least one of the recording medium fed from the feeding unit and the recording medium on which the recording process has been executed and which is re-fed via the path switching unit after the recording process, the determination being made at least based on information indicating whether or not a recording medium on the path switching unit when the path switching unit switches the recording medium to a re-feeding side floats from a conveyance face of the conveyance path at an end of an upstream side of the conveyance direction.