Patent ID: 7441772

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a sheet conveying device comprising: a sheet conveying path along which a sheet is conveyed in a predetermined direction in use; a conveying roller that is rotatably supported at a position adjacent the sheet conveying path; an inclined roller that is rotatably supported at a position adjacent the sheet conveying path so as to face the conveying roller across the sheet conveying path; an inclined-roller-supporting member that supports the inclined roller such that the inclined roller can rotate about a rotational axis that is inclined with respect to a rotational axis of the conveying roller, the inclined-roller-supporting member being capable of moving between a pressure contact position where the inclined roller comes into pressure contact with the conveying roller and a separate position where the inclined roller is separated from the conveying roller; and a sheet contact member having a contact surface with which an edge portion of a sheet conveyed along the sheet conveying path comes into contact, the sheet contact member being moveable between a contact position where the contact surface projects into the sheet conveying path so that an edge portion of a sheet can come into contact with the contact surface in use, and a withdrawn position where the contact surface is removed from the sheet conveying path so that the contact surface cannot restrict the position of the edge portion of the sheet; two-way conveying means that is positioned downstream of the sheet conveying device for conveying the sheet on the conveying path in opposite directions; a recording head that records on the sheet conveyed in the opposite directions by the two- way conveying means by transferring a plurality of kinds of ink onto the sheet; moving means that moves the sheet contact member to a withdrawn position where the sheet does not come into contact with the sheet contact member when the two-way conveying means conveys the sheet in the opposite directions; wherein the moving means moves the sheet contact member in the thickness direction of the sheet on the sheet conveying path.