Patent ID: 7413361

Claim:
A recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording sheet held between rollers and conveyed by the rollers, comprising: a recording head having a plurality of recording elements arranged in a conveyance direction of the recording sheet; a first pair of rollers configured to hold and convey the recording sheet on an upstream side of a recording position in a conveyance path of the recording sheet; a conveyance roller constituting a part of said first pair of rollers, configured to convey the recording sheet; roller driving means for rotating said conveyance roller; electric power detection means for detecting a variance of an electric power for driving said roller driving means, when the trailing edge of the recording sheet is released from a nip of said first pair of rollers; and head driving means for driving the recording head, to shift the recording elements of the recording head which are to be used, to a downstream side, when said electric power detection means detects the variance of the electric power.