Ink jet recording apparatus including plurality of divided transport plates and plurality of divided suction chambers

An ink jet recording apparatus comprising:

• a recording head that ejects ink onto a recording medium:
• a transport device including an endless belt that transports the recording medium along a first direction, toward an image forming position of the recording head, and a transport plate slidably supporting the endless belt;
• and
• a suction device located on an opposite side of the recording medium across the endless belt, and configured to adsorb the recording medium to the endless belt,
• wherein the endless belt includes a plurality of air intake holes, penetrating through the endless belt in a second direction, intersecting the first direction and corresponding to a direction in which the ink is ejected from the recording head toward the recording medium,
• the transport plate is located between the endless belt and the suction device, and includes a plurality of suction holes penetrating through the transport plate in the second direction, and also a plurality of divided transport plates aligned in the first direction,
• the suction device includes a plurality of suction chambers divided along the first direction, and
• a joint between the divided transport plates adjacent to each other, and a joint between the suction chambers adjacent to each other, are positionally shifted from each other in the first direction.