Patent ID: 8714541

Claim:
An image recording apparatus for conveying a roll paper as a sheet and a cut paper as a sheet on a common conveyance path to record an image on the sheet, the image recording apparatus comprising: a sheet type selecting unit configured to allow a user to select, as a sheet type, a mode of either a roll paper mode for conveying the roll paper and a cut paper mode for conveying the cut paper; a rotation detecting unit configured to detect a rotation of a rolling portion of the roll paper; a determination unit configured to determine whether the sheet is the roll paper or the cut paper based on the rotation detected by the rotation detecting unit during a conveyance of the sheet; a conveyance suspension unit configured to suspend the conveyance of the sheet in response to the determination unit determining that the sheet being conveyed is different from the sheet type selected by the sheet type selecting unit; and a restarting unit configured to restart a sheet conveyance suspended by the conveyance suspension unit during the cut paper mode, by switching the mode to the roll paper mode.