Patent ID: 6969141

Claim:
An ink jet recording apparatus for forming an image on a recording medium supplied from a feed sheet unit and transferred in a predetermined transfer direction by jetting ink from a recording head made to move in the main scanning direction thereof, the apparatus comprising: a recording medium detection unit for detecting a first recording medium whereon formation of an image is in progress, provided on an upstream side of the recording head in the transfer direction; a remaining length-to-rear end measuring unit for measuring length from a point at which presence of said first recording medium is detected by said recording medium detection unit to a rear end of said first recording medium; a remaining recording time measuring unit for measuring time from said point until the formation of the image on said first recording medium is completed; and a control unit for letting said feed sheet unit start a feed of a second recording medium when the length measured by said remaining length-to-rear end measuring unit is found to be less than predetermined reference length, and the time measured by said remaining recording time measuring unit is found to be less than predetermined reference time, said predetermined reference time is time from a point at which a feed of a sheet is started by said feed sheet unit until said second recording medium starts to move.