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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 07, 1997
Masaaki Kakizaki, Kawasaki, JP;
Yoji Ara, Yokohama, JP;
Tsutomu Shimada, Musashino, JP;
Jun Katayanagi, Musashino, JP;
Takeji Niikura, Kawasaki, JP;
Shoichi Kan, Yokohama, JP;
Nozomu Nishiberi, Yokohama, JP;
Yasushi Koike, Kawasaki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A recording apparatus is capable of preventing both contamination on a recording surface due to a contact of a recording medium on an ink discharging surface even when recording on the recording medium with a concave/convex portion and an ill-discharged state of an ink. The recording apparatus has a feeding unit for feeding a recording medium and a recording head as a recording unit for recording an image on the recording medium fed by the feeding unit. A first guide member (shaft) and a second guide member that serve as a correcting mechanism are provided upstream in a feeding direction from the recording head, for correcting the concave/convex portion of the recording medium.