Image-recording device

An image-recording device for recording an image on a recording medium, the image-recording device comprising:

• a media-accommodating unit that accommodates a plurality of recording media in a stacked state;
• a conveying path along which the recording medium is conveyed;
• a feeding roller that contacts the recording media in the media-accommodating unit and feeds the recording media one at a time from the media-accommodating unit along the conveying path;
• a pair of registration rollers disposed on the conveying path and conveying the recording medium fed by the feeding roller to an image-recording region, the registration rollers including a drive roller;
• an image-recording unit comprising a carriage that reciprocates in the image-recording region in a direction intersecting a conveying direction in which the recording medium is conveyed, and a recording head mounted on the carriage and recording an image on the recording medium;
• a drive transmission switching unit disposed outside the image-recording region on one end with respect to the reciprocating direction of the carriage and switching a combination of a forward rotating state and a reverse rotating state of the drive roller of the registration rollers and the feeding roller between a continuous feeding mode and an intermittent feeding mode;
• and
• a controlling unit that activates the drive transmission switching unit by moving the carriage to selectively switch between the continuous feeding mode and the intermittent feeding mode,
• wherein in the continuous feeding mode, the controlling unit drives the drive roller of the registration rollers and the feeding roller simultaneously with each other to rotate in a forward direction during a time period from when the feeding roller starts feeding a preceding recording medium until the feeding roller starts feeding a succeeding recording medium, such that a leading edge of the preceding recording medium is fed through the registration rollers within the time period, and
• wherein, during the time period, the drive roller does not stop rotating in the forward direction while the feeding roller is rotating in the forward direction.