Patent ID: 6814436
Filing Date: 2004-11-09
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
A recording apparatus comprising:a feeder, provided in an upstream in a transfer path for transferring a medium, operable to feed said medium to a downstream in said transfer path one by one, said medium being stacked at a certain angle; a recording head, provided in the downstream of said feeder, 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 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 position under said recording head onto said medium-placed surface, or a second position operable to receive and stack said medium fed by the feeder, 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 a first link mechanism operable to displace 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.