Patent ID: 7230672

Claim:
An image recording apparatus comprising: a recorder for recording an image on a cut recording material severed in accordance with a print size; a feeder for feeding said cut recording material along a passage such that said cut recording material passes said recorder; a carrying roller pair disposed at a downstream side of said feeder to carry said cut recording material, on which the image has been recorded, to a post-processing section, said carrying roller pair being switchable between a nip state for nipping said cut recording material and a release state for releasing a nip of said cut recording material; and a regulation member disposed between said feeder and said carrying roller pair so as to be switchable between a first state for regulating a flexure of said cut recording material and a second state for allowing the flexure thereof, said regulation member being switched to said second state when an anterior end of said cut recording material reaches said carrying roller pair during image recording, wherein a carry speed of said cut recording material, which depends on a rotational speed of said carrying roller pair, is reduced from a first speed after said carrying roller pair has been changed from said release state to said nip state, and then, the rotational speed of said carrying roller pair is accelerated to carry said cut recording material at a second speed.