Patent ID: 6986561

Claim:
A serial recording apparatus, comprising: a feeding device including a feeding roller and a drive source which rotates the feeding roller and thereby feeds a recording medium in a feeding direction; a recording head which records an image on the recording medium when the recording head is moved in a recording direction substantially perpendicular to the feeding direction and includes at least one array of recording elements arranged in a direction intersecting the recording direction; a non-volatile memory in which at least one of (a) first information representing a length of the array of recording elements in the feeding direction which length contains a manufacturing error of the array of recording elements and (b) second information representing a diameter of the feeding roller which diameter contains a manufacturing error of the feeding roller is stored, wherein the at least one of (a) the first information and (b) the second information is predetermined by a manufacturer of the serial recording apparatus before being stored in the memory; and a control device which controls, based on said at least one of (a) the first information and (b) the second information, an amount of operation of the drive source, and thereby controls an amount of feeding of the recording medium in the feeding direction.