Patent ID: 7914100

Claim:
A recording apparatus comprising: a head for performing recording on a medium, a transport mechanism that includes a roller on an upstream side of the head and transports the medium in the transport direction according to a target transport amount that is targeted, a memory that stores a plurality of correction values which are correction values for correcting the target transport amount when transporting the medium and which are matched with a relative position of the head and the medium, a sensor that is provided at a more upstream side than the upstream-side roller in order to detect a lower end of the medium transported in the transport direction, and a controller that corrects the target transport amount by a first correction value, which is matched with the relative position with an upper end of the medium as a reference, and controls the transport mechanism to transport the medium by the corrected target transport amount and that corrects the target transport amount by a second correction value, which is matched with the relative position with the lower end of the medium as a reference, after detecting the lower end of the medium by the sensor and controls the transport mechanism to transport the medium by the corrected target transport amount, wherein the transport mechanism further includes a roller on a downstream side of the head in order to transport the medium in the transport direction, and when the lower end of the medium is not detected even if transport up to the relative position at which the lower end of the medium is to be detected is performed, the controller controls the transport mechanism to transport the medium while correcting the target transport amount such that some of correction values used when transport by both the roller provided on the upstream side and the roller on the downstream side is performed are used multiple times.