Patent ID: 7984958

Claim:
An image-recording device for recording an image on a recording medium, the image-recording device comprising: a media-accommodating unit that accommodates a plurality of recording media in a stacked state; a conveying path along which the recording medium is conveyed; a feeding roller that contacts the recording media in the media-accommodating unit and feeds the recording media one at a time from the media-accommodating unit along the conveying path; a pair of registration rollers disposed on the conveying path and conveying the recording medium fed by the feeding roller to an image-recording region, the registration rollers including a drive roller; an image-recording unit comprising a carriage that reciprocates in the image-recording region in a direction intersecting a conveying direction in which the recording medium is conveyed, and a recording head mounted on the carriage and recording an image on the recording medium; a drive transmission switching unit disposed outside the image-recording region on one end with respect to the reciprocating direction of the carriage and switching a combination of a forward rotating state and a reverse rotating state of the drive roller of the registration rollers and the feeding roller between a continuous feeding mode and an intermittent feeding mode; and a controlling unit that activates the drive transmission switching unit by moving the carriage to selectively switch between the continuous feeding mode and the intermittent feeding mode, wherein in the continuous feeding mode, the controlling unit drives the drive roller of the registration rollers and the feeding roller simultaneously with each other to rotate in a forward direction during a time period from when the feeding roller starts feeding a preceding recording medium until the feeding roller starts feeding a succeeding recording medium, such that a leading edge of the preceding recording medium is fed through the registration rollers within the time period, and wherein, during the time period, the drive roller does not stop rotating in the forward direction while the feeding roller is rotating in the forward direction.