Patent ID: 7665838
Filing Date: 2010-02-23
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A recording apparatus, comprising: a recording medium setting portion on which plural recording media are set in a stacked state; a feed roller that feeds a recording medium set on the recording medium setting portion in a feeding direction; a recording medium return lever that returns a recording medium next or subsequent to a recording medium continuously fed out from the recording medium setting portion along with the recording medium to be fed; a control unit that controls the recording medium return lever; and a recording unit that performs recording on the recording medium, wherein the control unit controls the recording medium return lever so that the position is switched from a first position, a second position and to a third position: in the first position, the recording medium return lever is in a feeding waiting state and closes the sheet feeding path; in the second position, a leading end of the recording medium return lever is positioned at a position positioned closer to a downstream side than the first position; and in the third position, the leading end is positioned at a position positioned closer to an upstream side than the first position, and wherein the control unit has a control mode in which when a feeding operation of a subsequent page is about to start, a partial or entire portion of a return operation of the recording medium return lever from the third position to the first position is performed in parallel with an operation performed in relation with a preceding page.