Patent ID: 7784891

Claim:
An image recording apparatus comprising: a recording medium conveying section which conveys a recording medium; an image recording section configured to record an image over an entire recording width of the recording medium; a space varying section which is brought into contact with the image recording section and which moves the image recording section to a record position where the image is recorded and a standby position different from the record position; a positioning section which specifies a distance between the recording medium conveying section and the image recording section to a predetermined value in the record position; and a main body frame which retains at least the recording medium conveying section, the image recording section and the space varying section; wherein the space varying section is separated from the image recording section when the image recording section is located in the record position and records the images; and wherein the image recording section is held only by the recording medium conveying section via the positioning section when the image recording section is located in the record position and records the image.