Patent ID: 7120381

Claim:
An image-forming machine comprising a plurality of rolled paper accommodation units in which rolled papers are installed, a conveying means for conveying papers delivered from the rolled papers along a paper conveying passage, a cutting means for cutting the papers that are conveyed, and an image-forming means for transferring the image while the papers being conveyed pass through a transfer region, wherein a plurality of conveyance reference positions are set in a direction of conveying width in the transfer region so as to be corresponded to the sizes of the papers passing through the transfer region in the direction of the conveying width, and the rolled papers are installed in the rolled paper accommodation units correspondingly to the conveyance reference positions, wherein said conveyance reference positions of the plurality of rolled papers having widths smaller than the rolled paper having the maximum width are set at a plurality of places, and among the rolled papers having smaller widths, the two rolled papers are arranged on the same axis and in parallel with each other; further wherein the conveyance reference positions comprise a first conveyance reference position which is a center line extending in a direction in which the paper is conveyed passing through a center of the transfer region in the direction of conveying width, a second conveyance reference position which is a straight line extending in the direction in which the paper is conveyed passing through midway in the direction of conveying width of one region of the two regions divided by said center line in the direction of conveying width, and a third conveyance reference position which is a straight line extending in the direction in which the paper is conveyed passing through midway in the direction of conveying width of the other region of the two regions divided by said center line in the direction of conveying width; and the rolled paper having the maximum width is installed in a rolled paper accommodation unit in a manner that the central position thereof in the direction of width is corresponded to the first conveyance reference position, and the two rolled papers having smaller widths are installed in a rolled paper accommodation unit in a manner that the central positions thereof in the direction of width are corresponded to the second and third conveyance reference positions, respectively.