Patent ID: 7093932
Filing Date: 2006-08-22
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. An ink-jet recording device comprising: a medium feed portion for feeding recording media; a transporting system for transporting a recording medium from said medium feed portion, said transporting system including a pickup member for picking up a recording medium placed in said medium feed portion and a direction-inverting roller, which inverts a transporting direction of the recording medium to invert a main component of a vector representing a transporting direction of the recording medium picked up by said pickup member, and a transporting member for transporting the recording medium picked up by said pickup member to said direction-inverting roller; a medium discharge portion to which recorded recording medium transported by said transporting system is discharged; and a recording head for ejecting ink toward a recording medium, wherein a bottom of said direction-inverting roller is located at a position lower than a pickup surface of said pickup member at which said pickup member picks up the recording medium, with respect to a height direction; wherein the recording medium is inserted and drawn out in a horizontal direction with respect to a mounting surface on which the ink-jet recording device is mounted, and wherein said media feed portion is a cassette and at least a part of the transporting member is placed in the cassette.