Patent ID: 8708481

Claim:
An ink-jet recording apparatus comprising: a first transporting portion provided in a first transport path, and configured to transport a sheet in a first transporting direction; a support member provided on a downstream side of the first transporting portion in the first transporting direction, and configured to support the sheet guided through the first transport path; a recording portion provided to face the support member, and configured to jet ink droplets from nozzles onto the sheet supported on the support member to record an image thereon; a second transporting portion provided in a second transport path connected with the first transport path at a first connection position on a downstream side of the support member in the first transporting direction, and at a second connection position on an upstream side to the first transporting portion in the first transporting direction, and configured to sandwich and transport the sheet in a second transporting direction from the first connection position toward the second connection position; and a third transporting portion provided on a downstream side of the first connection position in the first transporting direction, and configured to sandwich and transport the sheet in the first transporting direction or toward the second transport path, and a corrugate mechanism provided in the first transport path on an upstream side to the third transporting portion in the first transporting direction, and configured to form a corrugated shape in the sheet; wherein the second transport path is defined by an upper guide member and a lower guide member; and on the upstream side to the second transporting portion in the second transporting direction, a projecting portion is provided in the upper guide member to project, in side view, toward the side of the lower guide member below a virtual line linking a nip position of the sheet due to the third transporting portion with another nip position of the sheet due to the second transporting portion.