Ink-jet recording device and control method thereof

An ink-jet recording device comprising:

• a medium feed portion f or feeding recording media;
• a transporting system for transporting a recording medium from said medium feed portion, said transporting system including a pickup member for picking up a recording medium placed in said medium feed portion, and a direction-inverting roller, which inverts a transporting direction of the recording medium so as to invert a main component of a vector representing a transporting direction of the recording medium picked up by said pickup member, and a transporting member for transporting the recording medium picked up by said pickup member to said direction-inverting roller;
• a medium discharge portion to which recorded recording medium transported by said transporting system is discharged;
• and
• a recording head for ejecting ink toward a recording medium,
• wherein the recording medium has a vector directed downward when the recording medium is transported from the pickup member to the direction-inverting roller;
• wherein the recording medium is inserted and drawn out in a horizontal direction with respect to a mounting surface on which the ink-jet recording device is mounted, and
• wherein said media feed portion is a cassette and at least a part of the transporting member is placed in the cassette.

An ink-jet recording device comprising:

• a medium feed portion for feeding recording media;
• a transporting system for transporting a recording medium from said medium feed portion, said transporting system including a pickup member for picking up a recording medium placed in said medium feed portion and a direction changing member for changing a transporting direction of the recording medium to invert a main component of a vector representing a transporting direction of the recording medium picked up by said pickup member;
• a medium discharge portion to which recorded recording medium transported by said transporting system is discharged;
• a recording head for ejecting ink toward a recording medium, and;
• a carriage for mounting said recording head,
• wherein a bottom of said direction changing member is located at a position lower than said pickup member with respect to a height direction;
• wherein the recording medium is inserted and drawn out in a horizontal direction with respect to a mounting surface on which the ink-jet recording device is mounted;
• wherein said medium discharging portion is located at a position higher than said carriage with respect to the height direction of said device.

An ink-jet recording device comprising:

• a medium feed portion for feeding recording media;
• a transporting system for transporting a recording medium from said medium feed portion, said transporting system including a pickup member for picking up a recording medium placed in said medium feed portion and a direction changing member for changing a transporting direction of the recording medium to invert a main component of a vector representing a transporting direction of the recording medium picked up by said pickup member;
• a medium discharge portion to which recorded recording medium transported by said transporting system is discharged;
• a recording head for ejecting ink toward a recording medium,
• a carriage for mounting said recording head and performs a reciprocating movement in a first direction;
• a plurality of ink supplying bodies arranged along a first plane, each of said ink supplying bodies storing ink supplied to said recording head and attached to and detached from said carriage from a first plane;
• and
• an ink supplying body loading portion in which a space ranging from an opening formed in the first plane of a device body to the interior of said ink-jet recording device;
• wherein a bottom of said direction changing member is located at a position lower than said pickup member with respect to a height direction;
• wherein the recording medium is inserted and drawn out in a horizontal direction with respect to a mounting surface on which the ink-jet recording device is mounted;
• wherein said ink supplying body is inserted into and drawn out of said ink supplying body loading portion in the first direction,
• wherein the recording medium is inserted into and drawn out of the device body in the first direction from the first plane,
• wherein the recorded recording medium is drawn out of said medium discharge portion in the first direction from the first plane,
• wherein the recording medium in said transporting system is transported in a second direction different from the first direction,
• wherein said medium feed portion includes a reference position of the recording media therein at a side of the first plane with respect to the center of said medium feed portion.