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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 11, 1997
Soichi Hiramatsu, Hachioji, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ink jet recording apparatus comprises a recording area where a recording sheet is conveyed substantially in a horizontal direction to a position opposite to a discharge port for discharging ink, and recording is performed by discharging ink from the discharge port downwardly substantially in a vertical direction to the recording sheet and a sheet-exhausting area where the recording sheet is conveyed from the recording area and exhausted. The sheet-exhausting area has a first sheet conveyor for introducing the recording sheet from the recording area to the sheet-exhausting area and a second sheet conveyor for holding the recording sheet introduced from the recording area to the sheet-exhausting area by the first sheet conveyor substantially in the horizontal direction or above the substantially horizontal direction and exhausting the recording sheet substantially in the horizontal direction or above the substantially horizontal direction.