Patent ID: 8662659

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a transportation unit that transports an elongated recording medium in a predetermined transportation direction which is parallel to a longitudinal direction of the recording medium; an image recording unit that records a plurality of images on the recording medium; a cutter for the recording medium disposed at a position downstream of the image recording unit in the transportation direction; a hold down device that presses the recording medium with a predetermined pressing force and disposed at a position downstream of the cutter in the transportation direction; a cutting execution unit that cuts the recording medium in a width direction by operating the cutter at a cutting position corresponding to the position of the image to be recorded on the recording medium with the hold down device being actuated; a cutter error detection unit that detects an operation error of the cutter which may occur during cutting by the cutting execution unit; and a cutting re-execution unit that restarts the cutter with the hold down device applying the increased pressing force to the recording medium, when an operation error of the cutter is detected by the cutter error detection unit, wherein the cutting re-execution unit includes a cutter returning unit that returns the cutter to a home position which serves as the start point of the operation and is configured to restart the cutter after the cutter has been returned to the home position by the cutter returning unit, wherein the cutting re-execution unit includes a transportation execution unit that operates the transportation unit to transport the recording medium by a predetermined distance during the time period between returning of the cutter to the home position by the cutter returning unit and restarting of the cutter, and wherein the predetermined distance is equal to or more than a distance between a cutter blade of the cutter and the hold down device.