Patent ID: 7259826

Claim:
An image recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording material comprising: a magazine containing a long web of the recording material, said magazine being removably loaded in a main body of said image recording apparatus; a cutter for cutting the recording material before the recording material is fed into an image recording section of said image recording apparatus; a sensor for detecting a leading end of the recording material at a position before said cutter in a feed out direction of the recording material; a detection device for detecting a transport amount of the recording material till the leading end of the recording material is detected by said sensor; and a control device for controlling an edge treatment to cut the leading end of the recording material by a given length by use of said cutter if the detected transport amount is less than a predetermined value, wherein said magazine comprises a device for recording an open/close history of a lid of said magazine, which is opened and closed to set the recording material in said magazine, and said control device reads the open/close history from said recording device, to control said cutter to carry out the edge treatment if the open/close history indicates that said magazine lid was opened while said magazine was removed from said image recording apparatus, regardless of whether the detected transport amount is less or more than said predetermined value, and said control device controls the edge treatment such that the leading end is cut by a first length if the detected transport amount is less than said predetermined value but the open/close history indicates that said magazine lid is kept closed, that the leading end is cut by a second length if the detected transport amount is more than said predetermined value but the open/close history indicates that said magazine lid was opened, and that said leading end is cut by a longer length chosen between said first and second lengths if the detected transport amount is less than said predetermined value and also the open/close history indicates that said magazine lid was opened.