Patent ID: 7036923

Claim:
An image recording apparatus comprising: a roll supporter that rotatably supports a roll into which a long record medium has been wound; a conveyor unit comprising an adhesive conveyor member on which the record medium being unwound from the roll is put, the conveyor unit being capable of conveying the record medium put on the conveyor member in either of a first direction in which the roll is unwound and a second direction reverse to the first direction; an image recording head that records an image on the record medium put on the conveyor member; an image recording controller that controls the image recording head to record the image on the record medium being conveyed in the first direction; a first contact mechanism that can bring the record medium into close contact with the conveyor member at a position distant in the second direction from an image recording position where the image recording head records the image on the record medium; and a second contact mechanism that can bring the record medium into close contact with the conveyor member at a position distant in the first direction from the image recording position, the first contact mechanism bringing the record medium, being conveyed in the first direction, into close contact with the conveyor member, the second contact mechanism bringing a part of the record medium, being conveyed in the second direction, into close contact with the conveyor member, which part was beyond the conveyor member in the first direction when the conveyance direction of the record medium by the conveyor member was switched from the first direction to the second direction.