Patent ID: 6848848

Claim:
An image recording apparatus comprising; an accommodation section which accommodates therein a plurality of recording sheets in a superimposed state; a feed-out mechanism which displaces each of n recording sheets by a distance corresponding to lengths Z 1 , Z 2 , . . . , Zn respectively and feeds out the recording sheets from the accommodation section in a displaced superimposed state; a carrying section which carries the n recording sheets fed out by the feed-out mechanism in the displaced superimposed state; and an image recording section which records an image on each of the n recording sheets carried in the displaced superimposed state within a respective range of the lengths Z 1 , Z 2 , . . . , Zn; wherein the feed-out mechanism includes a change-over section which positions a subsequently fed out recording sheet to be one of on top of and under a precedently fed out recording sheet; and wherein the change-over section comprises a control section which compares a length PT h which is half of the length of the precedently fed out recording sheet with a length PB of an image recording range of the subsequently fed out recording sheet measured from a rear end of the subsequently fed out recording sheet, and which controls the change-over section to position the subsequently fed out recording sheet on top of the precedently fed out recording sheet when PT h ≦PB and to position the subsequently fed out recording sheet under the precedently fed out recording sheet when PT h >PB.