Patent ID: 7401915

Claim:
An image-recording apparatus which records an image on a recording medium, the image-recording apparatus comprising: an image-recording section configured to record the image on the recording medium; a transport passage configured to transport the recording medium to the image-recording section; and a driving roller and a plurality of nip rollers which are provided on the transport passage respectively to interpose and transport the recording medium, wherein: shafts of the plurality of nip rollers are arranged substantially along a drive shaft of the driving roller under the driving roller, the shafts being inclined toward a downstream side in a transport direction of the recording medium with respect to the drive shaft of the driving roller; and nip positions for the recording medium, which are formed by the nip rollers and the driving roller, are positioned above and upstream, in the transport direction, from a lowermost end portion of an outer circumference of the driving roller.