Patent ID: 7722183

Claim:
An image recording apparatus comprising: a recording head which ejects ink for image recording on one or more recording media; a rotatable platen which faces said recording head, extends in a direction perpendicular to a recording medium transport direction, and comprises recording medium support surfaces supporting said one or more recording media during the image recording, respectively; driving means for rotating said rotatable platen; and control means for controlling said driving means so as to rotate said rotatable platen in such a way that a predetermined recording medium support surface selected from said recording medium support surfaces of said rotatable platen is stopped at a position facing said recording head in accordance with a transport pattern of said one or more recording media during the image recording, wherein said recording medium support surfaces support said one or more recording media transported in accordance with different transport patterns, respectively and have ink receivers that receive the ink which is ejected from said recording head during the image recording and has reached outside both side edges of each of said supported one or more recording media in said recording medium transport direction and are disposed in positions corresponding to vicinities of both side edges of each of said supported one or more recording media.