Patent ID: 8876278

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a pair of transport rollers that transport a recording medium in a transport direction; a recording head that ejects a liquid through a plurality of nozzles arranged in a row in the transport direction to a front surface of the recording medium being transported by the pair of transport rollers, thereby performing recording on the recording medium; and a support member disposed so as to oppose the recording head, wherein the support member includes a deposit recess that receive the liquid ejected to a region deviated from the recording medium in a marginless recording process in which the recording is performed over a region including end portions of the recording medium in a width direction intersecting with the transport direction, the deposit recess being located at a position corresponding to the respective end portion of the recording medium in the width direction, and a support region being provided upstream of the deposit recess in the transport direction so as to support a back surface of the recording medium; a suction mechanism cooperating with the support member and generating an attracting force on the recording medium through a suction recess formed in the support member and through the deposit recess; and the nozzles are arranged in a row on the recording head as far as an upstream position of an upstream end portion of the deposit recess in the transport direction, and a most upstream one of the nozzles in the transport direction is not used in the marginless recording process, wherein those nozzles of the plurality of nozzles that are located at positions corresponding to the support region are not used in the marginless recording process.