Patent ID: 8287084

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a recording head having an ejection surface from which a droplet of a liquid is ejected; a feeding mechanism which includes a plurality of rollers and an endless feeder belt wound around the rollers and having a feeding surface opposed to the ejection surface, the feeding mechanism feeding a recording medium placed on the feeding surface a part of which serves as a liquid-droplet ejection area onto which a droplet of the liquid is ejected; a detector which detects a trigger for initiating a manual cleansing of the liquid-droplet ejection area; and a controller which controls the feeding mechanism such that when the detector detects the trigger, the liquid-droplet ejection area is located at a cleansing position where the liquid-droplet ejection area is not opposed to the ejection surface of the recording head, wherein the plurality of rollers comprises at least an upstream-side roller positioned on an upstream side of the recording head in a feeding direction and a downstream-side roller positioned on a downstream side of the recording head in the feeding direction, and the recording medium is supplied to the upstream-side roller form a supply cassette disposed under the feeder belt through guide members, wherein the downstream-side roller is configured to discharge the recording medium to an outside tray, and wherein the cleansing position is on the upstream-side roller, and is disposed within a range of the feeding surface that faces upward.