Patent ID: 6827436
Filing Date: 2004-12-07
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
A recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording medium by a recording head, comprising:an assembled body having a base unit and a recording unit fixable to each other, wherein said recording unit is provided with a chassis made in the form of a box as a whole by folding upper and lower edge portions of a plate member, and also, by folding at least one of said ends thereof; a carrier roller rotatively and axially supported by said base unit and driven to rotate for pinching and conveying a recording medium; a pinch roller rotatively and axially supported by said chassis to face said carrier roller; and a carriage supported by said chassis above said recording medium, said carriage for mounting the recording head and being reciprocable in a direction intersecting a conveying direction of said recording medium, wherein conveyance of said recording medium is repeated by a designated amount, and the recording of images is effected in an area of a designated width on said recording medium by the recording head.