A movable guide is switchable between a guide position for regulating a flexure of a cut paper, and a release position for allowing the flexure of the cut paper. The movable guide is disposed between an exposure feed-roller pair and a guiding/carrying roller pair, which is switchable between a nip state for nipping the cut paper and a release state for releasing the nip thereof. When an anterior end of the cut paper reaches the guiding/carrying roller pair during image recording, this roller pair is changed from the release state to the nip state. A speed of the cut paper carried by the guiding/carrying roller pair is reduced. After that, rotation of the guiding/carrying roller pair is accelerated to carry the cut paper.