Patent ID: 8870363

Claim:
A cutting device comprising: a guide rail provided extending in a scanning direction opposing medium support means that supports a target medium; a printer head, provided so as to be movable along the guide rail, that prints an image and reference marks on the periphery of the image, by ejecting ink toward the target medium supported by the medium support means; a cutting head, provided so as to be movable along the guide rail, that performs a cutting process on the target medium supported by the medium support means; a medium feeding mechanism that feeds the target medium in a conveying direction perpendicular to the scanning direction for printing and back-feeds the target medium in a backward direction after the completion of a printing process such that the cutting process is performed while back-feeding, the backward direction is parallel to the conveying direction; a mark position detection portion, provided so as to be movable along the guide rail, that detects positions of the reference marks; and a cutting position setting portion that, based on the positions of the reference marks obtained by the mark position detection portion, detects a printing position of the image with respect to the reference marks, and sets a cutting process position to correspond with the printing position of the image, that prints the image and reference marks while feeding the target medium to one side in the conveying direction with the medium feeding mechanism, and performs the cutting process in the cutting process position set by the cutting position setting portion, the cutting device being characterized in that the positions of the reference marks printed on the periphery of an other side image, of the plural images, printed farthest to the other side in the conveying direction are detected before starting the cutting process, and the cutting process is performed for the other side image.