摘要 |
The present invention provides an ink jet recording apparatus including a carriage to which a recording head for effecting recording on a recording material by discharging ink and an ink tank for containing ink to be supplied to the recording head are detachably mounted in a separate exchanging permitting manner and which shifts the recording head and the ink tank in a direction perpendicular to a conveying direction of the recording material, comprising an ink tank exchanging position which is a position of the carriage, where the ink tank is to be exchanged, and a recording head exchanging position which is different from the ink tank exchanging position and which is a position of the carriage where the recording head is to be exchanged.
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