Patent ID: 7731320

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a recording medium conveying path; recording medium conveying means for conveying a recording medium along said conveying path; a recording head, arranged fixedly in said conveying path during recording, for recording on the recording medium as conveyed, said recording head having a plurality of nozzles, wherein a line of the plurality of nozzles is arranged in a width broader than that of the recording medium; and recording control means adapted for causing said recording head to record an image larger than the recording medium in a first print mode, wherein the plurality of nozzles of said recording head for ejecting the ink are arranged for ejection of the ink so that the nozzles straddle an edge of the recording medium, with such allocation that some of the nozzles of the recording head face the recording medium and other nozzles of the recording head do not face the recording medium, wherein the image is recorded on the recording medium based on image data stored in a memory, wherein said recording control means is adapted to record the image with a margin on the recording medium in a second print mode which is different from the first print mode in which the image larger than the recording medium is recorded, and wherein said recording control means is configured to divide the image data, corresponding to the image larger than the recording area, into intervening area image data and trailing edge image data, and increment a count value each time a portion of the trailing edge image data is recorded, so as to complete the recording of the image larger than the recording medium when the count value reaches a predetermined value.