1. Technical Field
The present invention relates to a stacking mechanism and a recording apparatus.
2. Related Art
Recording apparatuses developed to date that record data on a recording medium include those of a type that execute ink jet printing with a recording head, and of another type that form a static latent image on a photosensitive material and transfer a toner image to the recording medium, to thereby record the image thereon. The latter can be found, for example, in JP-A-2005-348339.
Now, the recording apparatus includes a stacking mechanism in which the recording medium, typically paper in sheet form, is to be stacked, and a user takes out the paper that has undergone the printing process from a paper output tray of the stacking mechanism, and refills the paper in a paper feed tray of the stacking mechanism.
In some of lately developed home-use printers, the paper output tray is superposed on the paper feed tray inside the outlet of the paper, in response to the requirement for reduction in size of the printer. To refill the paper in the printer thus designed, the user has to draw out the paper feed tray through the outlet.
The structure in which the paper output tray is superposed on the paper feed tray has, however, a drawback that the accessibility to a pull portion of the paper feed tray is degraded. This leads to inconvenience in refilling the paper, and a solution therefor is being sought.