Patent ID: 8092004

Claim:
An image recording apparatus configured to record images on a front surface and a back surface of a recording sheet, the image recording apparatus comprising: a recording head which ejects ink onto the recording sheet for recording; a sheet-supply roller which contacts the recording sheet so as to transfer the recording sheet for supplying the recording sheet to the recording head; a U-shaped path through which the recording sheet supplied by the sheet-supply roller is transferred toward the recording head; a pair of sheet-transfer rollers which are disposed on a downstream side of the recording head so as to be rotatable forwardly and reversely, and which transfer the recording sheet passed through the recording head while nipping the recording sheet, toward an outside of the image recording apparatus when forwardly rotated or toward the sheet-supply roller in a sheet-supply direction when reversely rotated such that the recording sheet is permitted to be again supplied to the recording head by the sheet-supply roller, the recording head being located on a downstream side of the sheet-supply roller in the sheet-supply direction; a sheet-return path which is branched from a connecting path that connects the pair of the sheet-transfer rollers and the recording head so as to extend toward the sheet-supply roller, and through which the recording sheet is transferred toward the sheet-supply roller in the sheet-supply direction by reverse rotations of the pair of the sheet-transfer rollers; and a controller configured to execute controls for operations of the image recording apparatus, wherein the controller includes a roller-driving control section configured to drive the pair of the sheet-transfer rollers and the sheet-supply roller such that, when the pair of the sheet-transfer rollers and the sheet-supply roller are transferring the recording sheet in the sheet-supply direction through the sheet-return path, the recording sheet is bent in a greater degree than in a case where an amount of transferring of the recording sheet by the pair of the sheet-transfer rollers per unit time and an amount of transferring of the recording sheet by the sheet-supply roller per unit time are the same as each other.