Patent ID: 7837321

Claim:
A recording method for recording by ejecting a liquid onto a medium, comprising: carrying said medium in a carrying direction; supporting said medium, which is carried, by a protruding section of a support member having a recessed section and said protruding section; and ejecting said liquid from a plurality of nozzles while making said plurality of nozzles that are provided in opposition to said recessed section and said protruding section move by making a carriage move in a scanning direction, a detector that detects a front end of said medium being provided to said carriage, said detector detecting said front end at a position upstream in said carrying direction than said nozzles that are provided in opposition to said recessed section; wherein: said recessed section is formed along said scanning direction; said protruding section includes an upstream side protruding section that is at an upstream side in said carrying direction, a downstream side protruding section that is at a downstream side in said carrying direction, and a central protruding section that is between said upstream side protruding section and said downstream side protruding section; said recessed section includes an upstream side recessed section that is between said upstream side protruding section and said central protruding section, and a downstream side recessed section that is between said downstream side protruding section and said central protruding section; when recording to a front end, in said carrying direction, of said medium, said medium is carried to position said front end between said downstream side recessed section and nozzles that are provided in opposition to said downstream side recessed section, based on a detection result of said detector, and said liquid is ejected from said nozzles that are provided in opposition to said downstream side recessed section and nozzles that are provided in opposition to said central protruding section, said nozzles that are provided in opposition to said upstream side recessed section, and said nozzles that are provided in opposition to said upstream side protruding section.