Patent ID: 7530686
Filing Date: 2009-05-12
Classification: B41J,B65H

Abstract:
1. A recording method for recording on a recording medium, comprising: carrying said recording medium in a carrying direction; detecting a leading edge in said carrying direction, of said recording medium using a sensor, said sensor being provided on a carriage that moves in a movement direction intersecting said carrying direction, said carriage having a head; detecting a skew of said recording medium based on a detection result of said sensor; and performing borderless recording on said recording medium based on said skew, wherein in said borderless recording, recording is performed with respect to an entire surface of said recording medium by said recording medium being carried intermittently in said carrying direction and said carriage moving in said movement direction and said head recording on said recording medium in between the intermittent carrying of said recording medium wherein, in detecting said skew, after said sensor detects said leading edge at said first position, a sensitivity of said sensor is lowered and said sensor is then moved toward a second position in said movement direction, said sensor detects said leading edge at said second position, and said skew is obtained based on said distance between said first position and said second position and a distance between a position, in said carrying direction, of said recording medium when said sensor detected said leading edge at said first position and another position, in said carrying direction, of said recording medium at which said sensor would have detected said leading edge at said first position if the sensitivity of said sensor had been lowered.