Patent ID: 8157459

Claim:
A recording apparatus that performs recording on a recording target medium that is fed from a roll object that is set in or on the recording apparatus, the roll object being formed as at least a roll of the recording target medium, the recording apparatus comprising: a rotating section that rotates the roll object; a rotation controlling section that controls rotation of the rotating section; and a roll object diameter measuring section that measures a diameter of the roll object, wherein the rotation controlling section sets at least one of a rotation speed of the rotating section and a rotation amount of the rotating section on the basis of the diameter of the roll object measured by the roll object diameter measuring section so as to ensure that at least one of a transportation speed of the recording target medium and a transportation distance of the recording target medium away from the roll object is set at a predetermined value, wherein said transportation distance is an amount of travel of said recording target medium after a start of rotation of said roll object.