Patent ID: 7176955

Claim:
An image recording apparatus having a first feed-roller pair and a second feed-roller pair respectively disposed at an upstream side and a downstream side of a record position of a sheet-shaped recording material in a carrying direction, an image being recorded at said record position while said recording materials are fed in parallel by said first and second feed-roller pairs, said image recording apparatus comprising: a changing mechanism for changing said first and second feed-roller pairs between a nip state for nipping and feeding said recording materials, and one of a release state for releasing said recoding material and a weak nip state for weakening a nipping force of said recording material in comparison with said nip state; a detector for detecting passing of said recording materials at each row thereof; and a controller for controlling said changing mechanism on the basis of a detection result of said detector so as to change said second feed-roller pair to said nip state after a lastly detected anterior end of said recording materials fed by said first feed-roller pair in parallel has passed through said second feed-roller pair kept in one of said release state and said weak nip state.