Patent ID: 7086714
Filing Date: 2006-08-08
Classification: B41J,B65H

Abstract:
1. A recording method for recording on a recording medium, comprising the steps of: (a) positioning a sensor at a first end point in a movement direction of said sensor, said sensor being capable of performing a substantially linear movement from said first end point to a second end point and from said second end point back to said first end point; (b) carrying said recording medium in a predetermined direction up to a detection position which is a position of said recording medium where said sensor detects said recording medium when said sensor is positioned at said first end point, said predetermined direction being a direction intersecting said movement direction of said sensor, and said recording medium having at least a leading edge which is the foremost edge in said predetermined direction; (c) lowering a detection sensitivity of said sensor so that it becomes difficult for said sensor to detect said recording medium, and then moving said sensor toward said second end point; and (d) if said sensor, whose detection sensitivity has been lowered, detects said recording medium while said sensor is being moved toward said second end point, then: obtaining a corner-to-corner distance which is a distance, in said predetermined direction, between a first corner of said recording medium formed by said leading edge of said recording medium and a first side edge thereof, and a second corner of said recording medium formed by said leading edge of said recording medium and a second side edge thereof based on a movement distance from said first end point to a position at which said sensor detected said recording medium and a virtual carrying distance which is a distance, in said predetermined direction, from said detection position in step (b) to a virtual detection position at which said sensor would detect said recording medium in step (b) if the detection sensitivity of said sensor had been lowered; and carrying said recording medium in said predetermined direction by an amount that corresponds to said corner-to-corner distance.