Patent ID: 7942491

Claim:
A serial recording apparatus comprising: a feed unit which feeds a recording medium; a recording unit which performs recording with respect to the fed recording medium; a movement unit which moves the recording unit; a transporting unit which transports the recording medium in a direction crossing the movement direction of the recording unit; a controller which controls the recording unit, the movement unit, the transporting unit and the feed unit; and a determination unit which determines whether a target stop position of the recording unit satisfies a target position condition and whether a transportation position of a preceding recording medium satisfies a feed condition in which the subsequent recording medium can be fed, during the movement of the recording unit, wherein the controller starts a feed operation of the subsequent medium using the feed unit at a timing before the movement of the recording unit is stopped, if both of the target position condition and the feed condition are satisfied, wherein the controller doesn't start the feed operation of the subsequent medium, if either the target position condition or the feed condition is not satisfied.