Patent ID: 6929414

Claim:
A reading/recording apparatus comprising: a shared conveying path having at least part thereof used as both a conveying path for an original and a conveying path for a recording medium; an original conveying device that conveys the original on said shared conveying path; a reading device that reads an image of the original at a reading position on said shared conveying path; a recording device that records the read image on the recording medium at a recording position on said shared conveying path; a recording medium conveying device that is movable between a sharing state where the recording medium conveying device shares a space with the conveying path for the original and a non-sharing state where the recording medium conveying device does not share the space with the conveying path for the original, and conveys the recording medium on said shared conveying path; a state detecting device that detects a state of said recording medium conveying device; and a control device that stops conveyance of the original by said original conveying device when said recording medium conveying device is detected to be in the sharing state by said state detecting device during a reading operation on the original by said reading device.